https://wiki.code4lib.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Efrierson&feedformat=atomCode4Lib - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T01:09:05ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.26.2https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2015_Game_Night&diff=426782015 Game Night2015-02-08T20:22:19Z<p>Efrierson: /* Games */</p>
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<div>Right now we don't have much more than an idea, so interested parties are encouraged to come up with plans and update this page at will!<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
= Schedule =<br />
Wednesday, February 11 at 6pm<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
= Where =<br />
The Hilton has given us the use of the meeting rooms/ballroom for Game Night. We can't bring in outside food or drink but can order from the hotel restaurant.<br />
<br />
For people interested in checking out the local gaming scene:<br />
* [http://www.ggportland.com/#eventscal Guardian Games] (across the river from downtown but accessible via the Streetcar) <br />
* [http://www.timevaultgames.com/TimeVaultGames%20retail%20store Time Vault Games] (about 2 blocks from the hotel)<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
= Games =<br />
If you have games that you are planning on bringing, please add them to the table below:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Game !! # Players<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]] || Netrunner || 2 <br />
|-<br />
| [[User:dojobo|Dominic Bordelon]] || D&D 5th (i.e. current) edition -- We will play with the [http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules free basic rules] -- email if you want to sign up as a player; I will bring a few prepped chars for drop-ins || 3-7<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:sanderson|Steven Anderson]] || Citadels || 2-7 <br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Holly|Holly Becker]] || [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2655/hive Hive] || 2<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Holly|Holly Becker]] || [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11971/cockroach-poker Cockroach poker] || 4-8<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Holly|Holly Becker]] || [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8203/hey-s-my-fish Hey, that's my fish!] || 2-4<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Holly|Holly Becker]] || [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/148228/splendor Splendor] || 2-4<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Holly|Holly Becker]] || [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28143/race-galaxy Race for the Galaxy] or [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43015/hansa-teutonica Hansa Teutonica] for something heavier || 2-6/3-5<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:rarleyj|Jon Earley]] || [http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/game/ Munchkin] || 3-6<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:RuthKitchinTillman|Ruth Tillman]] || GUMSHOE game, either a [http://pelgranepress.com/site/?p=809 Bookhounds of London game] if we want to go professional or a [http://www.pelgranepress.com/?cat=153 Night's Black Agents] super-spy vampire killing thriller game (1d6 required, simple rules, I'll bring dice). Please let me know on Twitter if you're interested: @ruthbrarian. It'd help if I had time to prep. || 3-5<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:efrierson|Eric Frierson]] || [http://magic.wizards.com Magic the Gathering] Decks || 2-4<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:efrierson|Eric Frierson]] || [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/100901/flash-point-fire-rescue Flash Point] || 2-6<br />
|-<br />
| Mike Abrahamson || [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40692/small-world Small World] || 2-5<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:ThomGoodnow|Thom Goodnow]] || [http://www.alderac.com/doomtown Doomtown Reloaded] || 2-4<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
= Contact Info =<br />
Any questions? Contact [mailto:michael.eaton@oregonstate.edu Mike Eaton]<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
= Planned Events =<br />
Want to get a game group going? Add an event here.<br />
<br />
== Munchkin ==<br />
Register your name to play Munchkin. [http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/game/ Munchkin] 3 to ~6 players<br />
<br />
'''When:''' 6pm<br />
<br />
'''Where:''' Meet in the lobby then walk to a nearby coffee shop.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Spot !! Name<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || [[User:rarleyj|Jon Earley]] - organizer, @jonathanearley<br />
|-<br />
| 2 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 3 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 4 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 5 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 6 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 7 ||<br />
|}</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2015_Craft_Drinkup&diff=426482015 Craft Drinkup2015-02-06T13:32:54Z<p>Efrierson: /* Signup */</p>
<hr />
<div>When: Tuesday, February 10th - 7pm - 10pm (ish)<br />
<br />
Where: eBay Offices - 1400 SW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97201<br />
<br />
The Craft Brew Drinkup at Code4lib 2015 is all about sharing and enjoying good beer, soda, and other drinks with fellow conference attendees. The idea is to bring bottles of your favorite beers or non-alcoholic drinks.<br />
<br />
While you're not obligated to bring local brews from wherever you're from, participants are definitely encouraged to bring brews that you think is special and might be somewhat hard for others outside your area to find. Homebrew is especially welcome as are non-alcoholic beverages. There will be hot water available for those who want to bring in their tea blends as well!<br />
<br />
This year, eBay has agreed to host the Code4Lib Drinkup at their offices in downtown Portland, a 6 block walk from the conference hotel. Attendees should expect to bring something to share, either drinks or snacks.<br />
<br />
Please Note: The space must be cleaned up and all folks gone no later than 11pm.<br />
<br />
Space is limited to the first 200 people who register.<br />
<br />
== Signup ==<br />
Please sign up below to share the brews and bottles you're thinking of bringing along and make any special requests (but don't expect that your wishes will be granted).<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Bringing !! Wanting<br />
|-<br />
| Esmé Cowles || Cigar City 110K+OT Batch #7 or Marshal Zhukov, Homebrew Imperial Saison || Any saison or sour!<br />
|-<br />
| Francis Kayiwa || (at least the following) Boulevard Quad Bourbon Barrel, Weyebacher Althea || <strike> Scotty Karate </strike> barleywines and any porters<br />
|-<br />
| Becky Yoose || [http://www.sprecherbrewery.com/store/details.php?prodId=164&category=7 N/A Soda from Sprecher Brewery], [http://www.sprecherbrewery.com/store/cw2/assets/product_huge/F_Popcorn_RB-Large.jpg Sprecher Root beer float flavored popcorn], selection of Finnish teas|| N/A drinks :c) Melon soda (not Ramune) greatly appreciated<br />
|-<br />
| Tania Fersenheim || Something from Pretty Things || ...<br />
|-<br />
| Ben Armintor || Stuff from NY that Matienzo & Harlow don't bring || Farmhouse beers, tasty low-ABV beers<br />
|-<br />
| Justin Coyne || Surly Darkness? || ...<br />
|-<br />
| Whitni Watkins|| Non-alcoholic Ginger beer options: at least Reed's & Saranac Lake. Potentially one other local brewed Ginger beer. If you have a request from Upstate NY HMU whitni.watkins at gmail (alcoholic and N/A) || Ginger Beers & Ales specifically: Fentimans, River City, Bundaberg and Blenheim Red Hot<br />
|-<br />
| Sarah Simpkin || Accepting requests for tasty Quebecois beers -- [https://brouehaha.com/en/nos-bieres/ see this list for breweries]. Otherwise will grab a small selection. Contact me at sarahsimpkin at gmail.com :-) || Hefeweizen-y beers appreciated<br />
|- <br />
|Coral Sheldon-Hess || Bourbon-barrel aged assam tea (1oz), Whiskey Cinnamon Snap rooibos tea (~1.5 oz), and Brandy Oolong tea (.5 oz), plus 1-2 reusable brewing devices || Ginger ale, anything bourbony, anything imperial and stoutish<br />
|-<br />
| mx matienzo || Transmitter Brewing B2, De Molen SSS Triple Stout 2011, perhaps a couple southern Upstate NY ciders, ...? || Saisons, sours and gueuzes, weird ciders, other horseblankety stuff<br />
|-<br />
| David Bass || TBT || ...<br />
|-<br />
| Christina Harlow || Probably something from Grimm...? Who knows, stuff from Brooklyn & stuff from Eastern Tenn/Western NC (Highland brewery?) || English bitter type stuff or stouts<br />
|-<br />
| Tom Johnson || Portland/Willamette Valley things you might not find downtown. Heater Allen, Pfriem, The Commons, Block 15, and/or Crux Fermentation. Homebrew (Old Ale brewed in October and racked over the winter).|| ...<br />
|-<br />
| Ranti Junus || Non-alcoholic something and probably some pu-erh tea. || N/A drinks<br />
|-<br />
| Chad Nelson || Weyerbacher Riserva, Dogfish Head Miles Davis Bitches' Brew, Allagash FOUR, Neshaminator || miller lite<br />
|-<br />
| Maura Carbone || Something from Mass or CT or both, not a beer drinker, so I'll see what I find! || N/A drinks or a hard cider or two<br />
|-<br />
| Sandy Rodriguez || Boulevard Tank 7; perhaps something from [http://mothersbrewing.com/craft-beers/our-beers/ Mother's Brewing] || scotch ales, brown ales, stouts, saisons<br />
|-<br />
| Dominic Bordelon || Louisiana beers besides Abita; probably LA 31 and Covington, maybe a Nola or two || ...<br />
|-<br />
| Tara Robertson || Vancouver (BC, Canada) beer || non-alcoholic ginger beer<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
| Matt Critchlow || I'll try to hunt down some new San Diego offerings (there are many) || homebrew, belgians<br />
|-<br />
| Jeremy Nelson || Left Hand's Wake Up the Dead Imperial Stout or other Colorado Stout/Porter || stouts and porters<br />
|-<br />
|Heather Pitts||Mid-Willamette Valley stuff in growlers/growlettes (depends on what's on tap), some bottles too||sours, stouts, porters, ginger ciders or meads<br />
|-<br />
|Jeremy Floyd||A selection from [http://www.greatbasinbrewingco.com/site/brews/in-bottles/ Great Basin Brewing Co.] in Northern Nevada||saisons, sours, anything unique<br />
|-<br />
|Misty De Meo||A bottle from Vancouver's [http://artisansakemaker.com/ Artisan SakeMaker]||stouts, porters, any dark beers really<br />
|-<br />
|Jon Earley || From Michigan, [http://foundersbrewing.com/our-beer/dirty-bastard/ Founders Dirty Bastard] and [http://www.greenbushbrewing.com/gb_splash.php?r=http://www.greenbushbrewing.com/beers/anger.htm Greenbush Anger] || ginger ale, anything unique<br />
|-<br />
|Eric Frierson||Austin's own [http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/383/1062/ Live Oak HefeWeizen], provided TSA doesn't confiscate the growler in my checked luggage||scottish ales, tripels would be nice.<br />
|-<br />
|Andrew Myers||[http://spencerbrewery.com/beer/ Spencer trappist ale], and maybe something from [http://www.aeronautbrewing.com/ the new place down the street]||hops<br />
|-<br />
|Bobbi Fox||home-baked crisp rosemary flatbread crackers (we all need *something* to sop up the beer :-)||porters, meads<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2015_Game_Night&diff=426272015 Game Night2015-02-04T19:10:33Z<p>Efrierson: /* Games */</p>
<hr />
<div>Right now we don't have much more than an idea, so interested parties are encouraged to come up with plans and update this page at will!<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
= Schedule =<br />
Wednesday, February 11 at 6pm<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
= Where =<br />
The Hilton has given us the use of the meeting rooms/ballroom for Game Night. We can't bring in outside food or drink but can order from the hotel restaurant.<br />
<br />
For people interested in checking out the local gaming scene:<br />
* [http://www.ggportland.com/#eventscal Guardian Games] (across the river from downtown but accessible via the Streetcar) <br />
* [http://www.timevaultgames.com/TimeVaultGames%20retail%20store Time Vault Games] (about 2 blocks from the hotel)<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
= Games =<br />
If you have games that you are planning on bringing, please add them to the table below:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Game !! # Players<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]] || Netrunner || 2 <br />
|-<br />
| [[User:dojobo|Dominic Bordelon]] || D&D 5th (i.e. current) edition -- [http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules free basic rules] -- email if you want to DM (I'd rather not) or sign up as a player || 3-7<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:sanderson|Steven Anderson]] || Citadels || 2-7 <br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Holly|Holly Becker]] || [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2655/hive Hive] || 2<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Holly|Holly Becker]] || [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11971/cockroach-poker Cockroach poker] || 4-8<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Holly|Holly Becker]] || [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8203/hey-s-my-fish Hey, that's my fish!] || 2-4<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Holly|Holly Becker]] || [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/148228/splendor Splendor] || 2-4<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:Holly|Holly Becker]] || [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28143/race-galaxy Race for the Galaxy] or [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43015/hansa-teutonica Hansa Teutonica] for something heavier || 2-6/3-5<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:rarleyj|Jon Earley]] || [http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/game/ Munchkin] || 3-6<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:RuthKitchinTillman|Ruth Tillman]] || GUMSHOE game, either a [http://pelgranepress.com/site/?p=809 Bookhounds of London game] if we want to go professional or a [http://www.pelgranepress.com/?cat=153 Night's Black Agents] super-spy vampire killing thriller game (1d6 required, simple rules, I'll bring dice). Please let me know on Twitter if you're interested: @ruthbrarian. It'd help if I had time to prep. || 3-5<br />
|-<br />
| [[User:efrierson|Eric Frierson]] || [http://magic.wizards.com Magic the Gathering] if anyone else is also. I could put together some learner decks if you're interested. Ping me @frierson on Twitter if you are bringing decks - otherwise I won't pack mine!|| 2-4<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
= Contact Info =<br />
Any questions? Contact [mailto:michael.eaton@oregonstate.edu Mike Eaton]<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
= Planned Events =<br />
Want to get a game group going? Add an event here.<br />
<br />
== Munchkin ==<br />
Register your name to play Munchkin. [http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/game/ Munchkin] 3 to ~6 players<br />
<br />
'''When:''' 6pm<br />
<br />
'''Where:''' Meet in the lobby then walk to a nearby coffee shop.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Spot !! Name<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || [[User:rarleyj|Jon Earley]] - organizer, @jonathanearley<br />
|-<br />
| 2 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 3 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 4 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 5 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 6 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 7 ||<br />
|}</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2015_Room_and_Ride_Share&diff=426122015 Room and Ride Share2015-02-03T21:42:27Z<p>Efrierson: /* PDX Airport */</p>
<hr />
<div>=== PDX Airport ===<br />
<br />
'''Arrivals'''<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" class="sortable" <br />
|- style="text-align: left;"<br />
! Name !! Flight Arriving !! Renting Car? !! Share rental cost? !! Gas? !! Driving? !! Van? !! Sign-Up?<br />
|-<br />
| yourname/email|| date/time || yes/no|| yes/no || yes/no || who's the driver?||yes/no||# of people you can take<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Frierson/efrierson at ebsco dot com|| sunday/10:40pm || taxi || no-i'll pay || no || [http://cassinihq.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Taxi-Driver-1.jpg taxi driver] || no || 2<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Departures'''<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" class="sortable" <br />
|- style="text-align: left;"<br />
! Name !! Flight Departing !! Renting Car? !! Share rental cost? !! Gas? !! Driving? !! Van? !! Sign-Up?<br />
|-<br />
| yourname/email|| date/time || yes/no|| yes/no || yes/no || who's the driver?||yes/no||# of people you can take<br />
|-<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Roommates ===<br />
==== Looking ====<br />
<br />
==== Offering ====<br />
Jean Rainwater, Was not able to get Thursday, 2/12 at the conference rate. Have a room with 2 beds at a higher price - will split cost with someone who needs a room on Feb 12. Email me: jean_rainwater@brown.edu<br />
<br />
Matt Sherman: Reserved a 2 bed room from Monday night through Thursday morning. I am happy to offer another guy the other bed to split the cost of the room. Email me: matt.r.sherman at gmail.com<br />
<br />
Judy Hsu: Reserved a 2 bedroom for 4 nights from Sunday night to Thursday morning. Wasn't able to get in on the conference rate and would like to share and split the cost of the room. Please email: judyh at uwest.edu.<br />
<br />
=== Other places to stay ===<br />
<br />
====Nearby====<br />
<br />
[https://www.airbnb.com/ Airbnb] has some rooms available around the area...<br />
<br />
[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2015_Craft_Drinkup&diff=426062015 Craft Drinkup2015-02-03T21:00:01Z<p>Efrierson: </p>
<hr />
<div>When: Tuesday, February 10th - 7pm - 10pm (ish)<br />
<br />
Where: eBay Offices - 1400 SW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97201<br />
<br />
The Craft Brew Drinkup at Code4lib 2015 is all about sharing and enjoying good beer, soda, and other drinks with fellow conference attendees. The idea is to bring bottles of your favorite beers or non-alcoholic drinks.<br />
<br />
While you're not obligated to bring local brews from wherever you're from, participants are definitely encouraged to bring brews that you think is special and might be somewhat hard for others outside your area to find. Homebrew is especially welcome as are non-alcoholic beverages. There will be hot water available for those who want to bring in their tea blends as well!<br />
<br />
This year, eBay has agreed to host the Code4Lib Drinkup at their offices in downtown Portland, a 6 block walk from the conference hotel. Attendees should expect to bring something to share, either drinks or snacks.<br />
<br />
Please Note: The space must be cleaned up and all folks gone no later than 11pm.<br />
<br />
Space is limited to the first 200 people who register.<br />
<br />
== Signup ==<br />
Please sign up below to share the brews and bottles you're thinking of bringing along and make any special requests (but don't expect that your wishes will be granted).<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Bringing !! Wanting<br />
|-<br />
| Esmé Cowles || Cigar City 110K+OT Batch #7 or Marshal Zhukov, Homebrew Imperial Saison || Any saison or sour!<br />
|-<br />
| Francis Kayiwa || (at least the following) Boulevard Quad Bourbon Barrel, Weyebacher Althea || <strike> Scotty Karate </strike> barleywines and any porters<br />
|-<br />
| Becky Yoose || [http://www.sprecherbrewery.com/store/details.php?prodId=164&category=7 N/A Soda from Sprecher Brewery], [http://www.sprecherbrewery.com/store/cw2/assets/product_huge/F_Popcorn_RB-Large.jpg Sprecher Root beer float flavored popcorn], selection of Finnish teas|| N/A drinks :c) Melon soda (not Ramune) greatly appreciated<br />
|-<br />
| Tania Fersenheim || Something from Pretty Things || ...<br />
|-<br />
| Ben Armintor || Stuff from NY that Matienzo & Harlow don't bring || Farmhouse beers, tasty low-ABV beers<br />
|-<br />
| Justin Coyne || Surly Darkness? || ...<br />
|-<br />
| Whitni Watkins|| Non-alcoholic Ginger beer options: at least Reed's & Saranac Lake. Potentially one other local brewed Ginger beer. If you have a request from Upstate NY HMU whitni.watkins at gmail (alcoholic and N/A) || Ginger Beers & Ales specifically: Fentimans, River City, Bundaberg and Blenheim Red Hot<br />
|-<br />
| Sarah Simpkin || Accepting requests for tasty Quebecois beers -- [https://brouehaha.com/en/nos-bieres/ see this list for breweries]. Otherwise will grab a small selection. Contact me at sarahsimpkin at gmail.com :-) || Hefeweizen-y beers appreciated<br />
|- <br />
|Coral Sheldon-Hess || Bourbon-barrel aged assam tea (1oz), Whiskey Cinnamon Snap rooibos tea (~1.5 oz), and Brandy Oolong tea (.5 oz), plus 1-2 reusable brewing devices || Ginger ale, anything bourbony, anything imperial and stoutish<br />
|-<br />
| mx matienzo || Transmitter Brewing B2, De Molen SSS Triple Stout 2011, perhaps a couple southern Upstate NY ciders, ...? || Saisons, sours and gueuzes, weird ciders, other horseblankety stuff<br />
|-<br />
| David Bass || TBT || ...<br />
|-<br />
| Christina Harlow || Probably something from Grimm...? Who knows, stuff from Brooklyn & stuff from Eastern Tenn/Western NC (Highland brewery?) || English bitter type stuff or stouts<br />
|-<br />
| Tom Johnson || Portland/Willamette Valley things you might not find downtown. Heater Allen, Pfriem, The Commons, Block 15, and/or Crux Fermentation. Homebrew (Old Ale brewed in October and racked over the winter).|| ...<br />
|-<br />
| Ranti Junus || Non-alcoholic something and probably some pu-erh tea. || N/A drinks<br />
|-<br />
| Chad Nelson || Weyerbacher Riserva, Dogfish Head Miles Davis Bitches' Brew, Allagash FOUR, Neshaminator || miller lite<br />
|-<br />
| Maura Carbone || Something from Mass or CT or both, not a beer drinker, so I'll see what I find! || N/A drinks or a hard cider or two<br />
|-<br />
| Sandy Rodriguez || Boulevard Tank 7; perhaps something from [http://mothersbrewing.com/craft-beers/our-beers/ Mother's Brewing] || scotch ales, brown ales, stouts, saisons<br />
|-<br />
| Dominic Bordelon || Louisiana beers besides Abita; probably LA 31 and Covington, maybe a Nola or two || ...<br />
|-<br />
| Tara Robertson || Vancouver (BC, Canada) beer || non-alcoholic ginger beer<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
| Matt Critchlow || I'll try to hunt down some new San Diego offerings (there are many) || homebrew, belgians<br />
|-<br />
| Jeremy Nelson || Left Hand's Wake Up the Dead Imperial Stout or other Colorado Stout/Porter || stouts and porters<br />
|-<br />
|Heather Pitts||Mid-Willamette Valley stuff in growlers/growlettes (depends on what's on tap), some bottles too||sours, stouts, porters, ginger ciders or meads<br />
|-<br />
|Jeremy Floyd||A selection from [http://www.greatbasinbrewingco.com/site/brews/in-bottles/ Great Basin Brewing Co.] in Northern Nevada||saisons, sours, anything unique<br />
|-<br />
|Misty De Meo||A bottle from Vancouver's [http://artisansakemaker.com/ Artisan SakeMaker]||stouts, porters, any dark beers really<br />
|-<br />
|Jon Earley || From Michigan, [http://foundersbrewing.com/our-beer/dirty-bastard/ Founders Dirty Bastard] and [http://www.greenbushbrewing.com/gb_splash.php?r=http://www.greenbushbrewing.com/beers/anger.htm Greenbush Anger] || ginger ale, anything unique<br />
|-<br />
|Eric Frierson||Austin's own [http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/383/1062/ Live Oak HefeWeizen] if I can find a way to bottle it; if not, then [http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/458/23720/ Devil's Backbone] tripel||scottish ales would be nice.<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2015_Lightning_Talks&diff=426052015 Lightning Talks2015-02-03T20:27:55Z<p>Efrierson: /* Wednesday 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM */</p>
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[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2015_During_the_Conference_Volunteers&diff=426042015 During the Conference Volunteers2015-02-03T20:13:56Z<p>Efrierson: /* Preconference Setup Help */</p>
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<div>code4lib 2015 During the Conference Volunteers<br />
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== Preconference Setup Help ==<br />
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Help manage preconference sessions, setting up projectors, etc.<br />
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* John Sarnowski (at ResCarta)<br />
* Whitni Watkins (at NimbleLibrarian)<br />
* Christina Harlow (at cm_harlow)<br />
* Eric Frierson (at frierson)<br />
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== Welcome Wagon Committee ==<br />
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Offers conference newcomers an opportunity to self-identify; offers oldtimers an opportunity to meet newcomers. May also want to constitute a year-round variation for #code4lib.<br />
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* Becky Yoose (b.yoose at google)<br />
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== Social Networking ==<br />
Responsible for non-IRC social networking presence.<br />
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1-2 person(s) to take questions for sessions (assuming there's time during the session) via Twitter/IRC, and adding resources to lanyrd schedule (slides, notes, resources mentioned, etc.) Make a note if you can only do one or both.<br />
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Consider directing people with questions to presenter on twitter/IRC (if applicable) if there is no time for questions.<br />
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*Whitni Watkins (at NimbleLibrarian)<br />
* Christina Harlow (at cm_harlow)<br />
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== Beverage Share Setup/Teardown ==<br />
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Help set up and clean up after the Tuesday event at the Ebay offices.<br />
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* Karen Estlund - setup<br />
* John Sarnowski - clean up (at ResCarta)<br />
* Dominic Bordelon - clean up<br />
* Whitni Watkins - setup (at NimbleLibrarian)<br />
* Ben Armintor - both/either (barmintor)<br />
* Bobbi Fox - setup<br />
* Matt Critchlow - clean up<br />
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== IRC Helpers ==<br />
Demonstrate how to get onto #code4lib during Registration. Offer support for newcomers in #code4lib during the conference.<br />
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* Chad Nelson (bibliotechy)<br />
One of the easiest ways to participate is to [http://webchat.freenode.net/ Go here] with your web browser. Choose a nickname (anything works so long as it is unique; if you want to be anonymous pick appropriately). Enter "code4lib" as the "Channel".<br />
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If you've managed to get into the channel without help, type "@helpers" (without the quotes) to see a list of #code4lib helpers.<br />
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== IRC Access ==<br />
Look into technology/procedures to make connecting to, and maintaining a connection to, IRC less painful. i.e. make sure wifi will allow connection, and someone needs to contact freenode about the sudden influx of people<br />
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* Mx Matienzo (anarchivist)<br />
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==Registration Desk Volunteers==<br />
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'''Monday'''<br />
* John Sarnowski (at ResCarta)<br />
* Whitni Watkins (at NimbleLibrarian) -- if we only need one desk volunteer, let me know. <br />
'''Tuesday'''<br />
* Christina Harlow (at cm_harlow)<br />
* Whitni Watkins (at NimbleLibrarian) -- if we only need one desk volunteer, let me know.<br />
'''Wednesday'''<br />
* Christina Harlow (at cm_harlow)<br />
* Bobbi Fox<br />
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==Video Streaming==<br />
We need two volunteers for each session, one at the front near the speaker and one at the rear at the camera/encoder.<br />
We will have a brief training on Monday Afternoon. If you can't make the training, we will perform magic knowledge transfer.<br />
This is not a highly technical position, if you can recognize a video camera two times out of three, you're in.<br />
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You are welcome to work multiple sessions, or all of them. This will get you really good karma and many free drinks.<br />
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'''Tuesday AM'''<br />
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* Ashley Blewer (at ablwr)<br />
* Steven Anderson (at scande3)<br />
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'''Tuesday PM'''<br />
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* Ashley Blewer (at ablwr)<br />
* Steven Anderson (at scande3)<br />
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'''Wednesday AM'''<br />
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* Ashley Blewer (at ablwr)<br />
* Josh Wilson (at bluestraggler || joshwilsonnc at gmail)<br />
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'''Wednesday PM'''<br />
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* Ashley Blewer (at ablwr)<br />
* Josh Wilson (at bluestraggler || joshwilsonnc at gmail)<br />
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'''Thursday AM'''<br />
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* Ashley Blewer (at ablwr, go big or go home)<br />
* Josh Wilson (at bluestraggler || joshwilsonnc at gmail)<br />
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==MCs==<br />
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'''Tuesday AM'''<br />
*Terry R., likes to put birds on things<br />
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'''Tuesday PM'''<br />
*Eric, mumbler extraordinaire<br />
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'''Wednesday AM'''<br />
*Becky, destroyer of last names, singer of badly adapted show tunes <br />
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'''Wednesday PM'''<br />
*Cary, taller than Becky, will not sing.<br />
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'''Thursday AM'''<br />
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== Session Timer Volunteers ==<br />
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People who volunteer to sit up front, keep time (and bring timer equipment - i.e. a laptop with a stopwatch program). It's good to have two people in each slot to back each other up in case of machinery failure.<br />
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'''Schedule for Session Timers'''<br />
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'''Tuesday AM'''<br />
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* Francis Kayiwa (Mr. Sweetie Poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAnVNXaa5oA)<br />
* Sarah Simpkin (at sarahsimpkin)<br />
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'''Tuesday PM'''<br />
*Maura Carbone<br />
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'''Wednesday AM'''<br />
* John Sarnowski (at ResCarta)<br />
* Sarah Simpkin (at sarahsimpkin)<br />
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'''Wednesday PM'''<br />
* Dominic Bordelon<br />
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'''Thursday AM'''<br />
* Eric Phetteplace (at phette23)<br />
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== Raffles ==<br />
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== Whatever Else Needs to be Done ==<br />
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* Sarah Simpkin (at sarahsimpkin)<br />
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[[Category: Code4Lib2015]]</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2015_Preconference_Proposals&diff=422932015 Preconference Proposals2014-12-08T23:17:31Z<p>Efrierson: /* Intro to Docker */</p>
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<div>== Preconference Schedule (draft) ==<br />
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Session titles in Italics means they have not been confirmed yet by presenters/workshop leaders.<br />
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This is a draft, and there may be some room switching when registration opens. Rooms will be confirmed the week before Code4Lib.<br />
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! Room (capacity) !! Morning (9 AM - Noon) !! Afternoon (1:30 PM - 4:30 PM)<br />
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| '''Parlor A (30''') || Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable (Needs: projector, internet connection, and power strips) || Intro to Git & possibly beyond (Needs: projector/screen)<br />
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| '''Parlor B (30)''' || Code Retreat (Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector) || Code Retreat (Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector) <br />
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| '''Parlor C (30)''' || code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp (Needs: projector/screen, flipboard/whiteboard, power sources for laptops) || code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp<br />
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| '''Grand Ballroom''' I (320) || CANCELLED: [UXtravaganza] || Presentations workshop (Needs: projector/screen)<br />
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| '''Grand Ballroom''' II (200) || Visualizing Library Data (Needs: projector) || DPLA API Workshop (Bringing their own projector)<br />
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| '''Galleria I (35)''' || Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer (Needs PC laptop projection, monitor, internet access/wifi, attendees bring laptops) || Fail4Lib 2015 (Needs: projector/screen; Requested: Conference table seating, limit 20 attendants)<br />
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| '''Galleria II (60)''' || RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails (Needs: internet/wifi, overhead projection) || CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum (Needs: Projector)<br />
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| '''Galleria III (35)''' || Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible (Confirmed with Chad; No given setup needs yet) || Intro to Docker<br />
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| '''Studio (35)''' || Linked Data Workshop (Bringing their own projector) || Dive into Hydra (Needs: projector/screen; Requests: classroom style seating)<br />
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| '''Directors (35)''' || Code4Arc (Needs: projector) || Code4Arc (Needs: projector)<br />
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| '''Council (45)''' || Delivering and Preserving GIS Data (Projector, Video connector for MacBook Pro, wifi, power outlets) || A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight (Needs: projector, outlets; Requests: list of attendees)<br />
|}<br />
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== Instructions ==<br />
Thank you for considering proposing a pre-conference! Here are a few details:<br />
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* We will be taking pre-conference proposals until '''November 7, 2014'''<br />
* If you cannot or do not want to edit this wiki directly, you can email your proposals to cmh2166@columbia.edu or collie@msu.edu<br />
* Examples from the 2014 pre-conference proposals can be found at [[2014 preconference proposals|http://wiki.code4lib.org/2014_preconference_proposals]]<br />
* If you are interested in ''attending'' a particular pre-conference, please append your name below that proposal (indicating interest in more than one proposal is fine!)<br />
* If you have an idea for a pre-conference, but cannot facilitate yourself please post the idea below and email cmh2116@columbia.edu or collie@msu.edu<br />
* '''NOTE:''' Pre-conferences are NOT included in the Code4Lib Conference price and will be held on Monday, February 9, 2015 as either full day or half day sessions<br />
* Please use the template for proposals provided in the pre-formatted block below<br />
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== Pre-conferences ==<br />
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===MORNING:===<br />
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=== Delivering and Preserving GIS Data ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Morning]'''<br />
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* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu<br />
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu<br />
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We will discuss how to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to deliver GIS data, to manage GIS content in a Fedora repository for preservation, and to establish metadata requirements for good spatial discovery. By the end of the workshop you will have a working SDI! This workshop is a compliment to the GeoBlacklight workshop in the afternoon.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]<br />
# Vicky Steeves<br />
# Andrew Battista<br />
# Peggy Griesinger<br />
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=== A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Afternoon]'''<br />
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* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu<br />
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu<br />
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GeoBlacklight is a discovery solution for geospatial data that builds on the successful Blacklight platform. Many libraries have collections of GIS data that aren’t easily discoverable. This will be a hands-on workshop, focused on installing and running GeoBlacklight which builds on the morning workshop "Delivering and Preserving GIS Data".<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]<br />
# Vicky Steeves<br />
# Andrew Battista<br />
# Peggy Griesinger<br />
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===RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails===<br />
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'''"Half-Day" [morning]'''<br />
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* Contact Carolyn Cole, Penn State University, carolyn@psu.edu<br />
* Laney McGlohon, Stanford University, laneymcg@stanford.edu<br />
* Additional instructors welcome<br />
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Interested in learning how to program? Want to build your own web application? Never written a line of code before and are a little intimidated? There's no need to be! [http://www.railsbridge.org/ RailsBridge] is a friendly place to get together and learn how to write some code.<br />
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RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Blacklight] and [http://projecthydra.org/ Hydra] and [https://github.com/traject-project/traject Traject].<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
<br />
If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
<br />
# Maura Carbone<br />
#Vicky Steeves<br />
# Peggy Griesinger<br />
# Mike Price<br />
# Jean Rainwater<br />
# Coral Sheldon-Hess<br />
# Margaret Heller<br />
# Bohyun Kim<br />
# Mark Jarrell<br />
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=== Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Morning]'''<br />
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* Chad Nelson, chad dot nelson @ lyrasis dot org<br />
* Blake Carver, Blake dot carver @lyrasis dot org<br />
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Abstract: <br />
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[http://www.ansible.com Ansible] is an open source automation and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management configuration management] tool that focuses on simplicity to help make your life as a developer, or a sysadmin, or even a full on devops-er, easier. This workshop will cover the basic building blocks used in Ansible as well as some best practices for maintaining your Ansible code. We will start by working through a simple example together, and then participants will be given time to work on their own projects with instructors providing guidance and troubleshooting along the way. By the end of the session, participants will have a working knowledge of Ansible and be able to write a working [http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks.html playbook] to meet local needs.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Coral Sheldon-Hess<br />
# Kevin S. Clarke<br />
# Joshua Gomez<br />
# Charlie Morris<br />
# Andy Mardesich<br />
# Anna Headley<br />
# Chelsea Lobdell<br />
# Shaun Ellis<br />
# Mark Mounts<br />
# Chris Sharp<br />
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=== Intro to Docker ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Whenever]'''<br />
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* John Fink, McMaster University, john dot fink at gmail dot com<br />
* Francis Kayiwa, University of Maryland Libraries , francis dot kayiwa at gmail dot com<br />
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Abstract:<br />
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[http://docker.io Docker] ([http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9669 jbfink code4lib journal article]) is an open source Linux operating system-level virtualization framework that has seen great uptake over the past year. This workshop will take you through the basic features of Docker, including setup, importing of containers, development workflows and deploying. Knowing when Docker is useful and when it isn't will also be covered. Ideally, every attendee will have ample experience creating and running their own Docker instances by the end.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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# Jim Hahn<br />
# Joshua Gomez<br />
# Bobbi Fox<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Megan Kudzia<br />
# Coral Sheldon-Hess (pleeeeaaase put this in a different slot from Ansible!)<br />
# Cary Gordon (uses Docker in production on AWS)<br />
# Eric Phetteplace<br />
# Esther Verreau<br />
# Charlie Morris<br />
# Anna Headley (voting for afternoon, compliments ansible)<br />
# Shaun Ellis<br />
# Mark Mounts<br />
# Matt Critchlow<br />
# Ray Henry<br />
# Eric Frierson<br />
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=== Code Retreat ===<br />
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'''Full Day'''<br />
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* Jeremy Friesen, University of Notre Dame, jfriesen at nd dot edu<br />
* Additional facilitators welcome; Especially if you have CodeRetreat experience.<br />
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Abstract:<br />
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"Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.<br />
By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement.<br />
Practicing the basic principles of modular and object-oriented design, developers can improve their ability to write code that minimizes the cost of change over time." [http://coderetreat.org/about About Code Retreat]<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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# Mike Giarlo<br />
# Charlie Morris<br />
# Devon Smith<br />
# Barbara Hui<br />
# Carol Bean<br />
# Matt Connolly<br />
# James Van Mil<br />
# Glen Horton<br />
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=== Presentations workshop ===<br />
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'''"Half Day [Afternoon]"''' (but could be expanded based on interest)<br />
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* Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu<br />
* Additional facilitators welcome.<br />
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This is a preconference session intended for first time Code4Lib speakers, habitual procrastinators, experienced speakers, those thinking about offering lightning talks, etc. If you're preparing a talk for this year's Code4Lib, this workshop is an opportunity to rehearse your presentation, get feedback from peers, get familiar with the presentation technology, etc.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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#Vicky Steeves<br />
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=== Dive into Hydra ===<br />
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'''"Half Day [Afternoon]"''' <br />
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* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com<br />
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu<br />
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Hydra is a collaboration of over 30 educational institutions who work together to solve their repository needs by building open-source software. Dive into Hydra is a course that bootstraps you into the Hydra software framework. We'll start at the basics and walk you through the various layers of the Hydra stack. We'll conclude by installing the Worthwhile gem, enabling every participant to walk away with their own Institutional Repository. Participants who have prior exposure to web programming will get the most out of this course. It's recommended (but not required) that you attend "RailsBridge" prior to this workshop.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Maura Carbone<br />
# Peggy Griesinger<br />
# Mike Price<br />
# Jean Rainwater<br />
# Sara Amato<br />
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=== code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp ===<br />
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'''"Full Day"''', with options for jumping in for half a day<br />
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* code4lib wrangler: Becky Yoose, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu<br />
* Write the Docs contacts: TBA<br />
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Abstract<br />
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Documentation. We all know that we need it for things we develop, but most of us either keep putting it off or write documentation that is not maintained, clear, concise, and so on. We're all guilty! So what's stopping us from doing better docs? Luckily, Portland is also the home to the NA Write the Docs conference, and is home for many folks who live and breathe documentation. This barcamp is open to both code4lib and non-code4lib conference attendees and is intended to provide a space where code4libbers can find practices and tools in creating better documentation for all as well as documentation wonks can find out ways in which the library wonks can help with better documentation access and organization. <br />
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Remember, like metadata, documentation is a love note to the future.<br />
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More information about Write the Docs at http://conf.writethedocs.org/<br />
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There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval). <br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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'''Full day'''<br />
# Emily Lynema<br />
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'''Morning'''<br />
# Ranti Junus<br />
# Mita Williams<br />
# Whitni Watkins<br />
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'''Afternoon'''<br />
# Francis Kayiwa (if my Pre-Conf is in the AM) Otherwise with Ranti if my Pre-Conf is in the afternoon. <br />
# Kevin S. Clarke<br />
# Chris Sharp<br />
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=== Linked Data Workshop ===<br />
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'''"Half Day [morning]"''' <br />
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* Karen Estlund, University of Oregon, kestlund@uoregon.edu<br />
* Tom Johnson, DPLA, tom@dp.la<br />
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Abstract:<br />
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Developer and metadata experts-focused linked data workshop. Topics covered will include: linked open data principles, converting existing data, and modeling linked data in DAMS.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
<br />
# Logan Cox<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Chris Hallberg<br />
# Derek Merleaux<br />
# Steven Anderson<br />
# Eben English<br />
# Mark Mounts<br />
# Heather Pitts<br />
# Andrew Woods<br />
# Carol Bean<br />
# Naomi Dushay (probably)<br />
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=== Code4Arc ===<br />
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'''"Full Day"''' (with options for half day participation)<br />
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* Sarah Romkey, Artefactual Systems, sromkey@artefactual.com<br />
* Justin Simpson, Artefactual Systems, jsimpson@artefactual.com<br />
* Chris Fitzpatrick, ArchivesSpace, chris.fitzpatrick@lyrasis.org<br />
* Alexandra Chassanoff, BitCurator Access, bitcurator@gmail.com<br />
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Abstract:<br />
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What does it mean to Code for Archives? Is it different than coding for libraries, and if so, how? <br />
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Code4Lib is a wonderful and successful model (you must agree or you wouldn't be reading this). This workshop is an attempt to create a space to replicate the model in an Archival context. A space to talk about development for archives, and the particular challenges of developing archival systems. Topics to discuss include Integration between different Archival software tools, and between Archival tools/workflows and larger institutional tools like institutional repositories, discovery and access systems.<br />
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The schedule may include the following:<br />
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* Panel type conversations about the State of Art in Archives <br />
* Case Studies - discussion of workflows at specific institutions, including gaps in tools and how those are being addressed or could be addressed <br />
* Tool Demos - access to demos of some of the open source tools used in an Archival Context (examples include ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, BitCurator, AtoM)<br />
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Artefactual will provide demos running Archivematica and AtoM, Lyrasis will do so for ArchivesSpace, BitCurator will for BitCurator. We encourage others to chime in here to expand the list of tools available to touch and play with. <br />
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When signing up, please indicate if you are an end-user or a developer.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Laney McGlohon - developer<br />
# Shaun Ellis<br />
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=== Fail4Lib 2015 ===<br />
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'''Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]'''<br />
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* Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu<br />
* Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu<br />
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Abstract:<br />
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Failure. Failure never changes. Since failure is an inescapable part of our professional work, it's important to be familiar with it, to acknowledge it, and to grow from it -- and, in contravention to longstanding tradition, to accept it as a fact of development life. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be shunned. Let's train ourselves to understand and embrace failure, encourage enlightened risk-taking, and seek out opportunities to fail and learn. This way, when we do what we do -- and fail at what we do -- we'll do so with grace and without fear.<br />
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This year's preconference will include new case studies and an improved discussion format. Repeat customers are welcome! (Fail early, fail often.)<br />
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The schedule may include the following:<br />
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* Case studies. Avoid our own mistakes by bearing witness to the failures of others.<br />
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Let's learn from our own (and each others') failures.<br />
* Group therapy. Vent about your own experiences in a judgment-free setting. Explore how we can make our organizations less risk-averse and more failure-tolerant.<br />
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''Interested in attending''<br />
<br />
If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Charlie Morris<br />
# Emily Lynema<br />
# Bret Davidson<br />
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=== Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer ===<br />
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'''"Half Day [Morning]"''' <br />
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* Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, twb27@georgetown.edu<br />
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Abstract<br />
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The Georgetown University Library has shared an application called the [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] that has allowed us to build custom solutions for nearly every department in the library.<br />
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* Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department<br />
* Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department <br />
* Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department<br />
* Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department<br />
* Validating counter compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department<br />
* Preparing ingest packages for the Digital Services department<br />
* Validating checksums for the Preservation department<br />
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This hands on workshop will step through the components of the application framework. Workshop participants will install and develop custom File Analyzer tasks in this session.<br />
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The workshop agenda will loosely follow the [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki/File-Analyzer-Training----Code4Lib-2014 pre-conference agenda from Code4Lib 2014].<br />
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=== Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable: ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Whenever]'''<br />
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* Karen A. Coombs, OCLC, coombsk@oclc.org<br />
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Abstract<br />
Have you built something cool and useful that you want to share with others? This preconference session will discuss techniques and tools for sharing code. Using our own OCLC Developer Network PHP authentication code libraries as an example, we will discuss a set of recommended best practices for how to share your code.<br />
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We’ll start with coding standards and test writing so you can be confident of the quality of your code. Next we'll discuss inline documentation as a tool for developers and how auto-generating documentation will save you time and effort. Lastly we'll provide an overview of the tricky areas of dependency and package management, and distribution tools. Along the way, we'll cover PHP coding standards, testing, and popular PHP tools including PHPDoc for documentation, Composer for smooth installations, and using GitHub and Packagist to manage distribution, updates and community feedback.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Peggy Griesinger<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Josh Wilson<br />
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=== CANCELLED: ''UXtravaganza'' ===<br />
'''"Half or Full Day [Based on Interest?, Morning/Afternoon Doesn’t Matter]"'''<br />
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* William Hicks, University of North Texas, William.hicks@unt.edu<br />
* Volunteers?<br />
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Abstract<br />
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I’m envisioning a 1/2 of full day for front-end developers, content strategy people, and other misfits with an interest in user experience, where we can talk about our shared problems, use cases, the state of current research, and play with each other’s sites. A half day seems doable, but if there’s significant enough interest we could push for a full? Here are a few of the things I think might be interesting to see happen:<br />
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* '''Analytics Share-fest:''' A few volunteers demonstrate data about their websites, catalogs, archival/digital collections. Most of us know our own sites but it would be interesting/validating to share this data with others so we can start to see commonalities between institutions, in certain kinds of systems, etc. For anyone using event tracking, or using click- or heat-maps, this would be a great opportunity to show off what people are seeing.<br />
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* '''UX Best Practices Catch Up:''' This spring I had the opportunity to attend a few days worth of usability workshops from the Nielsen-Norman Group, most of which was focused on mobile. I could distill down a lot of the information into an short presentation. Since this is a constantly moving area of research it would be nice to see a few people do other similar short presentations on some current trends/findings relevant to libraries, search, etc.<br />
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* '''Mobile Dev Lab:''' The UNT Libraries has been collecting a small set of smartphones and tablets for testing and development. Basically an [http://labup.org Open Device Lab]. We have about a dozen devices now of varying sizes, OS, OS Versions, + Google Glass. I’ll bring the devices, you can bring yours, and assuming we can get the wifi up and running we can test our sites/services with our big sausage fingers rather than pretending to do so through emulators and the one or two devices we each usually have on hand. If anyone is game they can do a tutorial on Browser-based Inspector Tools, Browser-Cams, or other testing services.<br />
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* '''The Eye’s Have It.''' The UNT Libraries is also in the process of acquiring an eye tracker and software for usability and other gaze-based research studies. We’ll take possession of it shortly after this pre-conference proposal is due and will have a couple of months to play with them before the conference. Assuming we can get our act together learning the device and can get past the technical hurdles of setting it up at the pre-conference, we could try to do some live demos on each other’s sites; i.e. You nominate a site/service, someone in the audience volunteers to wear the device, and we all watch them struggle do the tasks you request on a projector. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. It would hardly be scientific, but it sure would be fun. As a backup, if we have some sites nominated beforehand, I can run a few students at my library through some tasks here and we can show off the results to the crowd.<br />
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For those of you wanting to attend and help out, I’d really like to see some discussion on typography, writing for the web, “dealing with business/administrative requirements from on-high", maybe do some prototyping exercises, etc. Similarly if anyone is interested in doing some tutorials on bootstrap or how-to’s on running a usability test, that would be rad. But we need you to step up and steer part of the time for most of this to work, so if you are interested in some aspect, and especially if you want to volunteer to lead a bit of the time, contact me.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your<br />
name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Andy Mardesich<br />
# Chelsea Lobdell<br />
# Eben English (1/2 day)<br />
# Shaun Ellis (as attendee or volunteer)<br />
# Whitni Watkins (as attendee or volunteer)<br />
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=== Intro to Git & possibly beyond ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Whenever]'''<br />
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* Erin Fahy, Stanford University, efahy@stanford.edu<br />
* Shaun Trujillo, Mount Holyoke College, strujill@mtholyoke.edu<br />
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We can start with the basics of Git and discuss ways in which it can help you version control just about any file, not just code. Points we can go over:<br />
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* What is a Distributed Version Control System?<br />
* What's the difference between Git and Github.com?<br />
* How to initialize new Git projects locally and on a remote server/Github<br />
* Cloning/Forking existing projects and keeping up to date<br />
* The wonderful world of Git branches<br />
* Interactive rebasing<br />
* Contributing code to existing projects & what pull requests are<br />
* How to handle merge conflicts<br />
* Overview of workflows and branch best practices<br />
* (time allowing) Advanced git: pre/post hooks, submodules, anything else?<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Jeannie Graham<br />
# Derek Merleaux<br />
# Laurie Reeves<br />
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=== Visualizing Library Data ===<br />
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'''"Half Day [Morning||Afternoon]"''' <br />
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* Matt Miller, matthewmiller@nypl.org, New York Public Library, NYPL Labs<br />
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Visualizing your institution’s data can give new insight about your holding’s strengths, weaknesses and outliers. They can also provide potential new avenues for discovery and access. This half day session will focus on programmatically visualizing library metadata. Emphasis will be on creating web-based visualizations utilizing libraries such as d3.js but attention paid towards visualizing large datasets while keeping them web accessible. By then end of the session participants will have template, sample code and methodologies enabling them to start producing visualization with their own data.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Ashley Blewer!<br />
# Bobbi Fox<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Ranti Junus<br />
# Eric Phetteplace<br />
# Joshua Gomez<br />
# Charlie Morris<br />
# Andy Mardesich<br />
# Tao Zhao<br />
# Chris Hallberg<br />
# Derek Merleaux<br />
# Bohyun Kim<br />
# Mark Jarrell<br />
# Eben English<br />
# Shaun Ellis<br />
# Sarah Simpkin<br />
# Mark Mounts<br />
# Kathryn Stine<br />
# Steve Meyer<br />
# Matt Critchlow<br />
# Andrew Pasterfield<br />
# Ray Henry<br />
# Bret Davidson<br />
# Naomi Dushay (maybe)<br />
# Eric Frierson<br />
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=== CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Afternoon]'''<br />
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* Richard Millet, CollectionSpace.org, richard.millet@lyrasis.org<br />
* Becky Escamilla, Oakland Museum of California, rescamilla@museumca.org<br />
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This workshop is designed for anyone interested in or tasked with the technical setup and configuration of CollectionSpace for use in any collections environment (museum, library, special collection, gallery, etc. For more information about CollectionSpace, visit http://www.collectionspace.org<br />
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Participants will be walked through the process of installing the software and performing basic configuration work on a stand-alone instance of CollectionSpace. Participants will learn how to create user accounts, set up basic roles and permissions, and may then catalog or otherwise document sample objects from their collections. Materials distributed prior to the workshop will cover hardware and system requirements for participants.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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# Terry Brady<br />
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=== DPLA API Workshop: ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Afternoon]''' <br />
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* Audrey Altman, DPLA<br />
* Mark Breedlove, DPLA<br />
* Mark Matienzo, DPLA<br />
* Tom Johnson, DPLA<br />
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The Digital Public Library of America API workshop guides attendees through the process of creating an app based on DPLA's free, public API. The API provides access to over 8 million [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0] licensed metadata records from America’s libraries, archives, and museums in a common metadata format. This workshop is designed for people of all technical skill levels and will cover API basics, the capabilities of the DPLA API, available toolsets, and tips for using records from the API effectively. Members of DPLA's technology team will be on hand to help the group build their first application, and answer questions about tools and content.<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Ranti Junus<br />
# Jean Rainwater<br />
# Mita Williams<br />
# Margaret Heller<br />
# Bohyun Kim<br />
# Steven Anderson<br />
# Shaun Ellis<br />
# Sarah Simpkin<br />
# Mark Jarrell<br />
# Heather Pitts<br />
# Kathryn Stine<br />
# Andrew Woods<br />
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[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2015_Preconference_Proposals&diff=422922015 Preconference Proposals2014-12-08T23:15:25Z<p>Efrierson: /* Visualizing Library Data */</p>
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<div>== Preconference Schedule (draft) ==<br />
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Session titles in Italics means they have not been confirmed yet by presenters/workshop leaders.<br />
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This is a draft, and there may be some room switching when registration opens. Rooms will be confirmed the week before Code4Lib.<br />
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! Room (capacity) !! Morning (9 AM - Noon) !! Afternoon (1:30 PM - 4:30 PM)<br />
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| '''Parlor A (30''') || Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable (Needs: projector, internet connection, and power strips) || Intro to Git & possibly beyond (Needs: projector/screen)<br />
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| '''Parlor B (30)''' || Code Retreat (Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector) || Code Retreat (Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector) <br />
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| '''Parlor C (30)''' || code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp (Needs: projector/screen, flipboard/whiteboard, power sources for laptops) || code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp<br />
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| '''Grand Ballroom''' I (320) || CANCELLED: [UXtravaganza] || Presentations workshop (Needs: projector/screen)<br />
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| '''Grand Ballroom''' II (200) || Visualizing Library Data (Needs: projector) || DPLA API Workshop (Bringing their own projector)<br />
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| '''Galleria I (35)''' || Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer (Needs PC laptop projection, monitor, internet access/wifi, attendees bring laptops) || Fail4Lib 2015 (Needs: projector/screen; Requested: Conference table seating, limit 20 attendants)<br />
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| '''Galleria II (60)''' || RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails (Needs: internet/wifi, overhead projection) || CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum (Needs: Projector)<br />
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| '''Galleria III (35)''' || Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible (Confirmed with Chad; No given setup needs yet) || Intro to Docker<br />
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| '''Studio (35)''' || Linked Data Workshop (Bringing their own projector) || Dive into Hydra (Needs: projector/screen; Requests: classroom style seating)<br />
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| '''Directors (35)''' || Code4Arc (Needs: projector) || Code4Arc (Needs: projector)<br />
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| '''Council (45)''' || Delivering and Preserving GIS Data (Projector, Video connector for MacBook Pro, wifi, power outlets) || A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight (Needs: projector, outlets; Requests: list of attendees)<br />
|}<br />
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== Instructions ==<br />
Thank you for considering proposing a pre-conference! Here are a few details:<br />
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* We will be taking pre-conference proposals until '''November 7, 2014'''<br />
* If you cannot or do not want to edit this wiki directly, you can email your proposals to cmh2166@columbia.edu or collie@msu.edu<br />
* Examples from the 2014 pre-conference proposals can be found at [[2014 preconference proposals|http://wiki.code4lib.org/2014_preconference_proposals]]<br />
* If you are interested in ''attending'' a particular pre-conference, please append your name below that proposal (indicating interest in more than one proposal is fine!)<br />
* If you have an idea for a pre-conference, but cannot facilitate yourself please post the idea below and email cmh2116@columbia.edu or collie@msu.edu<br />
* '''NOTE:''' Pre-conferences are NOT included in the Code4Lib Conference price and will be held on Monday, February 9, 2015 as either full day or half day sessions<br />
* Please use the template for proposals provided in the pre-formatted block below<br />
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== Pre-conferences ==<br />
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===MORNING:===<br />
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=== Delivering and Preserving GIS Data ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Morning]'''<br />
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* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu<br />
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu<br />
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We will discuss how to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to deliver GIS data, to manage GIS content in a Fedora repository for preservation, and to establish metadata requirements for good spatial discovery. By the end of the workshop you will have a working SDI! This workshop is a compliment to the GeoBlacklight workshop in the afternoon.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]<br />
# Vicky Steeves<br />
# Andrew Battista<br />
# Peggy Griesinger<br />
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=== A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Afternoon]'''<br />
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* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu<br />
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu<br />
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GeoBlacklight is a discovery solution for geospatial data that builds on the successful Blacklight platform. Many libraries have collections of GIS data that aren’t easily discoverable. This will be a hands-on workshop, focused on installing and running GeoBlacklight which builds on the morning workshop "Delivering and Preserving GIS Data".<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]<br />
# Vicky Steeves<br />
# Andrew Battista<br />
# Peggy Griesinger<br />
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===RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails===<br />
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'''"Half-Day" [morning]'''<br />
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* Contact Carolyn Cole, Penn State University, carolyn@psu.edu<br />
* Laney McGlohon, Stanford University, laneymcg@stanford.edu<br />
* Additional instructors welcome<br />
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Interested in learning how to program? Want to build your own web application? Never written a line of code before and are a little intimidated? There's no need to be! [http://www.railsbridge.org/ RailsBridge] is a friendly place to get together and learn how to write some code.<br />
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RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Blacklight] and [http://projecthydra.org/ Hydra] and [https://github.com/traject-project/traject Traject].<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
<br />
# Maura Carbone<br />
#Vicky Steeves<br />
# Peggy Griesinger<br />
# Mike Price<br />
# Jean Rainwater<br />
# Coral Sheldon-Hess<br />
# Margaret Heller<br />
# Bohyun Kim<br />
# Mark Jarrell<br />
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=== Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Morning]'''<br />
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* Chad Nelson, chad dot nelson @ lyrasis dot org<br />
* Blake Carver, Blake dot carver @lyrasis dot org<br />
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Abstract: <br />
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[http://www.ansible.com Ansible] is an open source automation and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management configuration management] tool that focuses on simplicity to help make your life as a developer, or a sysadmin, or even a full on devops-er, easier. This workshop will cover the basic building blocks used in Ansible as well as some best practices for maintaining your Ansible code. We will start by working through a simple example together, and then participants will be given time to work on their own projects with instructors providing guidance and troubleshooting along the way. By the end of the session, participants will have a working knowledge of Ansible and be able to write a working [http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks.html playbook] to meet local needs.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Coral Sheldon-Hess<br />
# Kevin S. Clarke<br />
# Joshua Gomez<br />
# Charlie Morris<br />
# Andy Mardesich<br />
# Anna Headley<br />
# Chelsea Lobdell<br />
# Shaun Ellis<br />
# Mark Mounts<br />
# Chris Sharp<br />
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=== Intro to Docker ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Whenever]'''<br />
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* John Fink, McMaster University, john dot fink at gmail dot com<br />
* Francis Kayiwa, University of Maryland Libraries , francis dot kayiwa at gmail dot com<br />
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Abstract:<br />
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[http://docker.io Docker] ([http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9669 jbfink code4lib journal article]) is an open source Linux operating system-level virtualization framework that has seen great uptake over the past year. This workshop will take you through the basic features of Docker, including setup, importing of containers, development workflows and deploying. Knowing when Docker is useful and when it isn't will also be covered. Ideally, every attendee will have ample experience creating and running their own Docker instances by the end.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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# Jim Hahn<br />
# Joshua Gomez<br />
# Bobbi Fox<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Megan Kudzia<br />
# Coral Sheldon-Hess (pleeeeaaase put this in a different slot from Ansible!)<br />
# Cary Gordon (uses Docker in production on AWS)<br />
# Eric Phetteplace<br />
# Esther Verreau<br />
# Charlie Morris<br />
# Anna Headley (voting for afternoon, compliments ansible)<br />
# Shaun Ellis<br />
# Mark Mounts<br />
# Matt Critchlow<br />
# Ray Henry<br />
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=== Code Retreat ===<br />
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'''Full Day'''<br />
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* Jeremy Friesen, University of Notre Dame, jfriesen at nd dot edu<br />
* Additional facilitators welcome; Especially if you have CodeRetreat experience.<br />
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Abstract:<br />
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"Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.<br />
By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement.<br />
Practicing the basic principles of modular and object-oriented design, developers can improve their ability to write code that minimizes the cost of change over time." [http://coderetreat.org/about About Code Retreat]<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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# Mike Giarlo<br />
# Charlie Morris<br />
# Devon Smith<br />
# Barbara Hui<br />
# Carol Bean<br />
# Matt Connolly<br />
# James Van Mil<br />
# Glen Horton<br />
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=== Presentations workshop ===<br />
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'''"Half Day [Afternoon]"''' (but could be expanded based on interest)<br />
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* Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu<br />
* Additional facilitators welcome.<br />
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This is a preconference session intended for first time Code4Lib speakers, habitual procrastinators, experienced speakers, those thinking about offering lightning talks, etc. If you're preparing a talk for this year's Code4Lib, this workshop is an opportunity to rehearse your presentation, get feedback from peers, get familiar with the presentation technology, etc.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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#Vicky Steeves<br />
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=== Dive into Hydra ===<br />
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'''"Half Day [Afternoon]"''' <br />
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* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com<br />
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu<br />
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Hydra is a collaboration of over 30 educational institutions who work together to solve their repository needs by building open-source software. Dive into Hydra is a course that bootstraps you into the Hydra software framework. We'll start at the basics and walk you through the various layers of the Hydra stack. We'll conclude by installing the Worthwhile gem, enabling every participant to walk away with their own Institutional Repository. Participants who have prior exposure to web programming will get the most out of this course. It's recommended (but not required) that you attend "RailsBridge" prior to this workshop.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Maura Carbone<br />
# Peggy Griesinger<br />
# Mike Price<br />
# Jean Rainwater<br />
# Sara Amato<br />
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=== code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp ===<br />
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'''"Full Day"''', with options for jumping in for half a day<br />
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* code4lib wrangler: Becky Yoose, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu<br />
* Write the Docs contacts: TBA<br />
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Abstract<br />
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Documentation. We all know that we need it for things we develop, but most of us either keep putting it off or write documentation that is not maintained, clear, concise, and so on. We're all guilty! So what's stopping us from doing better docs? Luckily, Portland is also the home to the NA Write the Docs conference, and is home for many folks who live and breathe documentation. This barcamp is open to both code4lib and non-code4lib conference attendees and is intended to provide a space where code4libbers can find practices and tools in creating better documentation for all as well as documentation wonks can find out ways in which the library wonks can help with better documentation access and organization. <br />
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Remember, like metadata, documentation is a love note to the future.<br />
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More information about Write the Docs at http://conf.writethedocs.org/<br />
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There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval). <br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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'''Full day'''<br />
# Emily Lynema<br />
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'''Morning'''<br />
# Ranti Junus<br />
# Mita Williams<br />
# Whitni Watkins<br />
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# Francis Kayiwa (if my Pre-Conf is in the AM) Otherwise with Ranti if my Pre-Conf is in the afternoon. <br />
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=== Linked Data Workshop ===<br />
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'''"Half Day [morning]"''' <br />
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* Karen Estlund, University of Oregon, kestlund@uoregon.edu<br />
* Tom Johnson, DPLA, tom@dp.la<br />
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Developer and metadata experts-focused linked data workshop. Topics covered will include: linked open data principles, converting existing data, and modeling linked data in DAMS.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Logan Cox<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Chris Hallberg<br />
# Derek Merleaux<br />
# Steven Anderson<br />
# Eben English<br />
# Mark Mounts<br />
# Heather Pitts<br />
# Andrew Woods<br />
# Carol Bean<br />
# Naomi Dushay (probably)<br />
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=== Code4Arc ===<br />
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'''"Full Day"''' (with options for half day participation)<br />
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* Sarah Romkey, Artefactual Systems, sromkey@artefactual.com<br />
* Justin Simpson, Artefactual Systems, jsimpson@artefactual.com<br />
* Chris Fitzpatrick, ArchivesSpace, chris.fitzpatrick@lyrasis.org<br />
* Alexandra Chassanoff, BitCurator Access, bitcurator@gmail.com<br />
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Abstract:<br />
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What does it mean to Code for Archives? Is it different than coding for libraries, and if so, how? <br />
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Code4Lib is a wonderful and successful model (you must agree or you wouldn't be reading this). This workshop is an attempt to create a space to replicate the model in an Archival context. A space to talk about development for archives, and the particular challenges of developing archival systems. Topics to discuss include Integration between different Archival software tools, and between Archival tools/workflows and larger institutional tools like institutional repositories, discovery and access systems.<br />
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The schedule may include the following:<br />
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* Panel type conversations about the State of Art in Archives <br />
* Case Studies - discussion of workflows at specific institutions, including gaps in tools and how those are being addressed or could be addressed <br />
* Tool Demos - access to demos of some of the open source tools used in an Archival Context (examples include ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, BitCurator, AtoM)<br />
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Artefactual will provide demos running Archivematica and AtoM, Lyrasis will do so for ArchivesSpace, BitCurator will for BitCurator. We encourage others to chime in here to expand the list of tools available to touch and play with. <br />
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When signing up, please indicate if you are an end-user or a developer.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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# Laney McGlohon - developer<br />
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=== Fail4Lib 2015 ===<br />
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'''Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]'''<br />
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* Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu<br />
* Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu<br />
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Abstract:<br />
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Failure. Failure never changes. Since failure is an inescapable part of our professional work, it's important to be familiar with it, to acknowledge it, and to grow from it -- and, in contravention to longstanding tradition, to accept it as a fact of development life. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be shunned. Let's train ourselves to understand and embrace failure, encourage enlightened risk-taking, and seek out opportunities to fail and learn. This way, when we do what we do -- and fail at what we do -- we'll do so with grace and without fear.<br />
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This year's preconference will include new case studies and an improved discussion format. Repeat customers are welcome! (Fail early, fail often.)<br />
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The schedule may include the following:<br />
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* Case studies. Avoid our own mistakes by bearing witness to the failures of others.<br />
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Let's learn from our own (and each others') failures.<br />
* Group therapy. Vent about your own experiences in a judgment-free setting. Explore how we can make our organizations less risk-averse and more failure-tolerant.<br />
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''Interested in attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Charlie Morris<br />
# Emily Lynema<br />
# Bret Davidson<br />
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=== Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer ===<br />
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'''"Half Day [Morning]"''' <br />
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* Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, twb27@georgetown.edu<br />
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Abstract<br />
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The Georgetown University Library has shared an application called the [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] that has allowed us to build custom solutions for nearly every department in the library.<br />
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* Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department<br />
* Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department <br />
* Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department<br />
* Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department<br />
* Validating counter compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department<br />
* Preparing ingest packages for the Digital Services department<br />
* Validating checksums for the Preservation department<br />
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This hands on workshop will step through the components of the application framework. Workshop participants will install and develop custom File Analyzer tasks in this session.<br />
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The workshop agenda will loosely follow the [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki/File-Analyzer-Training----Code4Lib-2014 pre-conference agenda from Code4Lib 2014].<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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# Megan Kudzia<br />
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=== Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable: ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Whenever]'''<br />
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* Karen A. Coombs, OCLC, coombsk@oclc.org<br />
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Abstract<br />
Have you built something cool and useful that you want to share with others? This preconference session will discuss techniques and tools for sharing code. Using our own OCLC Developer Network PHP authentication code libraries as an example, we will discuss a set of recommended best practices for how to share your code.<br />
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We’ll start with coding standards and test writing so you can be confident of the quality of your code. Next we'll discuss inline documentation as a tool for developers and how auto-generating documentation will save you time and effort. Lastly we'll provide an overview of the tricky areas of dependency and package management, and distribution tools. Along the way, we'll cover PHP coding standards, testing, and popular PHP tools including PHPDoc for documentation, Composer for smooth installations, and using GitHub and Packagist to manage distribution, updates and community feedback.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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# Peggy Griesinger<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Josh Wilson<br />
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=== CANCELLED: ''UXtravaganza'' ===<br />
'''"Half or Full Day [Based on Interest?, Morning/Afternoon Doesn’t Matter]"'''<br />
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* William Hicks, University of North Texas, William.hicks@unt.edu<br />
* Volunteers?<br />
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Abstract<br />
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I’m envisioning a 1/2 of full day for front-end developers, content strategy people, and other misfits with an interest in user experience, where we can talk about our shared problems, use cases, the state of current research, and play with each other’s sites. A half day seems doable, but if there’s significant enough interest we could push for a full? Here are a few of the things I think might be interesting to see happen:<br />
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* '''Analytics Share-fest:''' A few volunteers demonstrate data about their websites, catalogs, archival/digital collections. Most of us know our own sites but it would be interesting/validating to share this data with others so we can start to see commonalities between institutions, in certain kinds of systems, etc. For anyone using event tracking, or using click- or heat-maps, this would be a great opportunity to show off what people are seeing.<br />
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* '''UX Best Practices Catch Up:''' This spring I had the opportunity to attend a few days worth of usability workshops from the Nielsen-Norman Group, most of which was focused on mobile. I could distill down a lot of the information into an short presentation. Since this is a constantly moving area of research it would be nice to see a few people do other similar short presentations on some current trends/findings relevant to libraries, search, etc.<br />
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* '''Mobile Dev Lab:''' The UNT Libraries has been collecting a small set of smartphones and tablets for testing and development. Basically an [http://labup.org Open Device Lab]. We have about a dozen devices now of varying sizes, OS, OS Versions, + Google Glass. I’ll bring the devices, you can bring yours, and assuming we can get the wifi up and running we can test our sites/services with our big sausage fingers rather than pretending to do so through emulators and the one or two devices we each usually have on hand. If anyone is game they can do a tutorial on Browser-based Inspector Tools, Browser-Cams, or other testing services.<br />
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* '''The Eye’s Have It.''' The UNT Libraries is also in the process of acquiring an eye tracker and software for usability and other gaze-based research studies. We’ll take possession of it shortly after this pre-conference proposal is due and will have a couple of months to play with them before the conference. Assuming we can get our act together learning the device and can get past the technical hurdles of setting it up at the pre-conference, we could try to do some live demos on each other’s sites; i.e. You nominate a site/service, someone in the audience volunteers to wear the device, and we all watch them struggle do the tasks you request on a projector. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. It would hardly be scientific, but it sure would be fun. As a backup, if we have some sites nominated beforehand, I can run a few students at my library through some tasks here and we can show off the results to the crowd.<br />
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For those of you wanting to attend and help out, I’d really like to see some discussion on typography, writing for the web, “dealing with business/administrative requirements from on-high", maybe do some prototyping exercises, etc. Similarly if anyone is interested in doing some tutorials on bootstrap or how-to’s on running a usability test, that would be rad. But we need you to step up and steer part of the time for most of this to work, so if you are interested in some aspect, and especially if you want to volunteer to lead a bit of the time, contact me.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your<br />
name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Andy Mardesich<br />
# Chelsea Lobdell<br />
# Eben English (1/2 day)<br />
# Shaun Ellis (as attendee or volunteer)<br />
# Whitni Watkins (as attendee or volunteer)<br />
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=== Intro to Git & possibly beyond ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Whenever]'''<br />
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* Erin Fahy, Stanford University, efahy@stanford.edu<br />
* Shaun Trujillo, Mount Holyoke College, strujill@mtholyoke.edu<br />
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We can start with the basics of Git and discuss ways in which it can help you version control just about any file, not just code. Points we can go over:<br />
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* What is a Distributed Version Control System?<br />
* What's the difference between Git and Github.com?<br />
* How to initialize new Git projects locally and on a remote server/Github<br />
* Cloning/Forking existing projects and keeping up to date<br />
* The wonderful world of Git branches<br />
* Interactive rebasing<br />
* Contributing code to existing projects & what pull requests are<br />
* How to handle merge conflicts<br />
* Overview of workflows and branch best practices<br />
* (time allowing) Advanced git: pre/post hooks, submodules, anything else?<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Jeannie Graham<br />
# Derek Merleaux<br />
# Laurie Reeves<br />
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=== Visualizing Library Data ===<br />
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'''"Half Day [Morning||Afternoon]"''' <br />
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* Matt Miller, matthewmiller@nypl.org, New York Public Library, NYPL Labs<br />
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Visualizing your institution’s data can give new insight about your holding’s strengths, weaknesses and outliers. They can also provide potential new avenues for discovery and access. This half day session will focus on programmatically visualizing library metadata. Emphasis will be on creating web-based visualizations utilizing libraries such as d3.js but attention paid towards visualizing large datasets while keeping them web accessible. By then end of the session participants will have template, sample code and methodologies enabling them to start producing visualization with their own data.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Ashley Blewer!<br />
# Bobbi Fox<br />
# Ray Schwartz<br />
# Ranti Junus<br />
# Eric Phetteplace<br />
# Joshua Gomez<br />
# Charlie Morris<br />
# Andy Mardesich<br />
# Tao Zhao<br />
# Chris Hallberg<br />
# Derek Merleaux<br />
# Bohyun Kim<br />
# Mark Jarrell<br />
# Eben English<br />
# Shaun Ellis<br />
# Sarah Simpkin<br />
# Mark Mounts<br />
# Kathryn Stine<br />
# Steve Meyer<br />
# Matt Critchlow<br />
# Andrew Pasterfield<br />
# Ray Henry<br />
# Bret Davidson<br />
# Naomi Dushay (maybe)<br />
# Eric Frierson<br />
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=== CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Afternoon]'''<br />
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* Richard Millet, CollectionSpace.org, richard.millet@lyrasis.org<br />
* Becky Escamilla, Oakland Museum of California, rescamilla@museumca.org<br />
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This workshop is designed for anyone interested in or tasked with the technical setup and configuration of CollectionSpace for use in any collections environment (museum, library, special collection, gallery, etc. For more information about CollectionSpace, visit http://www.collectionspace.org<br />
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Participants will be walked through the process of installing the software and performing basic configuration work on a stand-alone instance of CollectionSpace. Participants will learn how to create user accounts, set up basic roles and permissions, and may then catalog or otherwise document sample objects from their collections. Materials distributed prior to the workshop will cover hardware and system requirements for participants.<br />
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''Interested in Attending''<br />
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=== DPLA API Workshop: ===<br />
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'''Half Day [Afternoon]''' <br />
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* Audrey Altman, DPLA<br />
* Mark Breedlove, DPLA<br />
* Mark Matienzo, DPLA<br />
* Tom Johnson, DPLA<br />
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The Digital Public Library of America API workshop guides attendees through the process of creating an app based on DPLA's free, public API. The API provides access to over 8 million [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0] licensed metadata records from America’s libraries, archives, and museums in a common metadata format. This workshop is designed for people of all technical skill levels and will cover API basics, the capabilities of the DPLA API, available toolsets, and tips for using records from the API effectively. Members of DPLA's technology team will be on hand to help the group build their first application, and answer questions about tools and content.<br />
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If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br />
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# Ranti Junus<br />
# Jean Rainwater<br />
# Mita Williams<br />
# Margaret Heller<br />
# Bohyun Kim<br />
# Steven Anderson<br />
# Shaun Ellis<br />
# Sarah Simpkin<br />
# Mark Jarrell<br />
# Heather Pitts<br />
# Kathryn Stine<br />
# Andrew Woods<br />
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[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_talks_proposals&diff=283162013 talks proposals2012-11-09T16:38:11Z<p>Efrierson: /* Take Your Content and Shove It */</p>
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<div>'''Deadline has been extended by request due to the hurricane/storm.'''<br />
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Deadline for talk submission is ''Friday, November 9'' at 11:59pm ET. We ask that no changes be made after this point, so that every voter reads the same thing. You can update your description again after voting closes.<br />
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Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and focus on one or more of the following areas:<br />
* tools (some cool new software, software library or integration platform)<br />
* specs (how to get the most out of some protocols, or proposals for new ones)<br />
* challenges (one or more big problems we should collectively address)<br />
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The community will vote on proposals using the criteria of:<br />
* usefulness<br />
* newness<br />
* geekiness<br />
* uniqueness<br />
* awesomeness<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 applicable<br />
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== All Teh Metadatas Re-Revisited ==<br />
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* Esme Cowles, UC San Diego Library, escowles AT ucsd DOT edu<br />
* Matt Critchlow, UC San Diego Library, mcritchlow AT ucsd DOT edu<br />
* Bradley Westbrook, UC San Diego Library, bdwestbrook AT ucsd DOT edu<br />
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Last year Declan Fleming presented ALL TEH METADATAS and reviewed our UC<br />
San Diego Library Digital Asset Management system and RDF data model. You<br />
may be shocked to hear that all that metadata wasn't quite enough to<br />
handle increasingly complex digital library and research data in an<br />
elegant way. Our ad-hoc, 8-year-old data model has also been added to in<br />
inconsistent ways and our librarians and developers have not always been<br />
perfectly in sync in understanding how the data model has evolved over<br />
time.<br />
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In this presentation we'll review our process of locking a team of<br />
librarians and developers in a room to figure out a new data model, from<br />
domain definition through building and testing an OWL ontology. We¹ll also<br />
cover the challenges we ran into, including the review of existing<br />
controlled vocabularies and ontologies, or lack thereof, and the decisions<br />
made to cover the gaps. Finally, we'll discuss how we engaged the digital<br />
library community for feedback and what we have to do next. We all know<br />
that Things Fall Apart, this is our attempt at Doing Better This Time.<br />
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== Modernizing VuFind with Zend Framework 2 ==<br />
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* Demian Katz, Villanova University, demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu<br />
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When setting goals for a new major release of VuFind, use of an existing web framework was an important decision to encourage standardization and avoid reinvention of the wheel. Zend Framework 2 was selected as providing the best balance between the cutting-edge (ZF2 was released in 2012) and stability (ZF1 has a long history and many adopters). This talk will examine some of the architecture and features of the new framework and discuss how it has been used to improve the VuFind project.<br />
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== Did You Really Say That Out Loud? Tools and Techniques for Safe Public WiFi Computing ==<br />
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* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]], LYRASIS, Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org<br />
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Public WiFi networks, even those that have passwords, are nothing more that an old-time [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony) party line]: what every you say can be easily heard by anyone nearby. <br />
Remember [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep Firesheep]? <br />
It was an extension to Firefox that demonstrated how easy it was to snag session cookies and impersonate someone else.<br />
So what are you sending out over the airwaves, and what techniques are available to prevent eavesdropping?<br />
This talk will demonstrate tools and techniques for desktop and mobile operating systems that you should be using right now -- right here at Code4Lib -- to protect your data and your network activity.<br />
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== Drupal 8 Preview — Symfony and Twig ==<br />
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* [[User:Highermath|Cary Gordon]], The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com<br />
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Drupal is a great platform for building web applications. Last year, the core developers decided to adopt the Symfony PHP framework, because it would lay the groundwork for the modernization (and de-PHP4ification) of the Drupal codebase. As I write this, the Symfony ClassLoader and HttpFoundation libraries are committed to Drupal core, with more elements likely before Drupal 8 code freeze.<br />
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It seems almost certain that the Twig templating engine will supplant PHPtemplate as the core Drupal template engine. Twig is a powerful, secure theme building tool that removes PHP from the templating system, the result being a very concise and powerful theme layer.<br />
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Symfony and Twig have a common creator, Fabien Potencier, who's overall goal is to rid the world of the excesses of PHP 4.<br />
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== Neat! But How Do We Do It? - The Real-world Problem of Digitizing Complex Corporate Digital Objects ==<br />
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* Matthew Mariner, University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library, matthew.mariner@ucdenver.edu<br />
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Isn't it neat when you discover that you are the steward of dozens of Sanborn Fire Instance Maps, hundreds of issues of a city directory, and thousands of photographs of persons in either aforementioned medium? And it's even cooler when you decide, "Let's digitize these together and make them one big awesome project to support public urban history"? Unfortunately it's a far more difficult process than one imagines at inception and, sadly, doesn't always come to fruition. My goal here is to discuss the technological (and philosophical) problems librarians and archivists face when trying to create ultra-rich complex corporate digital projects, or, rather, projects consisting of at least three facets interrelated by theme. I intend to address these problems by suggesting management solutions, web workarounds, and, perhaps, a philosophy that might help in determining whether to even move forward or not. Expect a few case studies of "grand ideas crushed by technological limitations" and "projects on the right track" to follow. <br />
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== ResCarta Tools building a standard format for audio archiving, discovery and display ==<br />
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* [[User:sarney|John Sarnowski]], The ResCarta Foundation, john.sarnowski@rescarta.org<br />
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The free ResCarta Toolkit has been used by libraries and archives around the world to host city directories, newspapers, and historic photographs and by aerospace companies to search and find millions of engineering documents. Now the ResCarta team has released audio additions to the toolkit. <br />
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Create full text searchable oral histories, news stories, interviews. or build an archive of lectures; all done to Library of Congress standards. The included transcription editor allows for accurate correction of the data conversion tool’s output. Build true archives of text, photos and audio. A single audio file carries the embedded Axml metadata, transcription, and word location information. Checks with the FADGI BWF Metaedit.<br />
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ResCarta-Web presents your audio to IE, Chome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera browsers with full playback and word search capability. Display format is OGG!! <br />
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You have to see this tool in action. Twenty minutes from an audio file to transcribed, text-searchable website. Be there or be L seven (Yeah, I’m that old) <br />
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== Format Designation in MARC Records: A Trip Down the Rabbit-Hole ==<br />
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* Michael Doran, University of Texas at Arlington, doran@uta.edu<br />
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This presentation will use a seemingly simple data point, the "format" of the item being described, to illustrate some of the complexities and challenges inherent in the parsing of MARC records. I will talk about abstract vs. concrete forms; format designation in the Leader, 006, 007, and 008 fixed fields as well as the 245 and 300 variable fields; pseudo-formats; what is mandatory vs. optional in respect to format designation in cataloging practice; and the differences between cataloging theory and practice as observed via format-related data mining of a mid-size academic library collection. <br />
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I understand that most of us go to code4lib to hear about the latest sexy technologies. While MARC isn't sexy, many of the new tools being discussed still need to be populated with data gleaned from MARC records. MARC format designation has ramifications for search and retrieval, limits, and facets, both in the ILS and further downstream in next generation OPACs and web-scale discovery tools. Even veteran library coders will learn something from this session. <br />
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== Touch Kiosk 2: Piezoelectric Boogaloo ==<br />
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* Andreas Orphanides, North Carolina State University Libraries, akorphan@ncsu.edu<br />
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At the NCSU Libraries, we provide realtime access to information on library spaces and services through an interactive touchscreen kiosk in our Learning Commons. In the summer of 2012, two years after its initial deployment, I redeveloped the kiosk application from the ground up, with an entirely new codebase and a completely redesigned user interface. The changes I implemented were designed to remedy previously identified shortcomings in the code and the interface design [1], and to enhance overall stability and performance of the application.<br />
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In this presentation I will outline my revision process, highlighting the lessons I learned and the practices I implemented in the course of redevelopment. I will highlight the key features of the HTML/Javascript codebase that allow for increased stability, flexibility, and ease of maintenance; and identify the changes to the user interface that resulted from the usability findings I uncovered in my previous research. Finally, I will compare the usage patterns of the new interface to the analysis of the previous implementation to examine the practical effect of the implemented changes.<br />
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I will also provide access to a genericized version of the interface code for others to build their own implementations of similar kiosk applications.<br />
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[1] http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5832<br />
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== Wayfinding in a Cloud: Location Service for libraries ==<br />
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* Petteri Kivimäki, The National Library of Finland, petteri.kivimaki@helsinki.fi<br />
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Searching for books in large libraries can be a difficult task for a novice library user. This paper presents The Location Service, software as a service (SaaS) wayfinding application developed and managed by The National Library of Finland, which is targeted for all the libraries. The service provides additional information and map-based guidance to books and collections by showing their location on a map, and it can be integrated with any library management system, as the integration happens by adding a link to the service in the search interface. The service is being developed continuously based on the feedback received from the users.<br />
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The service has two user interfaces: One for the customers and one for the library staff for managing the information related to the locations. The UI for the customers is fully customizable by the libraries, and the customization is done via template files by using the following techniques: HTML, CSS, and Javascript/jQuery. The service supports multiple languages, and the libraries have a full control of the languages, which they want to support in their environment.<br />
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The service is written in Java and it uses Spring and Hibernate frameworks. The data is stored in PostgreSQL database, which is shared by all the libraries. They do not possess a direct access to the database, but the service offers an interface, which makes it possible to retrieve XML data over HTTP. Modification of the data via admin UI, however, is restricted, and access on the other libraries’ data is blocked.<br />
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== Empowering Collection Owners with Automated Bulk Ingest Tools for DSpace ==<br />
<br />
* Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu<br />
<br />
The Georgetown University Library has developed a number of applications to expedite the process of ingesting content into DSpace.<br />
* Automatically inventory a collection of documents or images to be uploaded<br />
* Generate a spreadsheet for metadata capture based on the inventory<br />
* Generate item-level ingest folders, contents files and dublin core metadata for the items to be ingested<br />
* Validate the contents of ingest folders prior to initiating the ingest to DSpace<br />
* Present users with a simple, web-based form to initiate the batch ingest process<br />
<br />
The applications have eliminated a number of error-prone steps from the ingest workflow and have significantly reduced a number of tedious data editing steps. These applications have empowered content experts to be in charge of their own collections. <br />
<br />
In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.<br />
<br />
== Quality Assurance Reports for DSpace Collections ==<br />
<br />
* Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu<br />
<br />
The Georgetown University Library has developed a collection of quality assurance reports to improve the consistency of the metadata in our DSpace collections. The report infrastructure permits the creation of query snippets to test for possible consistency errors within the repository such as items missing thumbnails, items with multiple thumbnails, items missing a creation date, items containing improperly formatted dates, items without duplicated metadata fields, items recently added items across the repository, a community or a collection<br />
<br />
These reports have served to prioritize programmatic data cleanup tasks and manual data cleanup tasks. The reports have served as a progress tracker for data cleanup work and will provide on-going monitoring of the metadata consistency of the repository.<br />
<br />
In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.<br />
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== A Hybrid Solution for Improving Single Sign-On to a Proxy Service with Squid and EZproxy through Shibboleth and ExLibris’ Aleph X-Server ==<br />
<br />
* Alexander Jerabek, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, jerabek.alexander_j@uqam.ca<br />
* Minh-Quang Nguyen, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, nguyen.minh-quang@uqam.ca<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will describe how we developed and implemented a hybrid solution for improving single sign-on in conjunction with the library’s proxy service. This hybrid solution consists of integrating the disparate elements of EZproxy, the Squid workflow, Shibboleth, and the Aleph X-Server. We will report how this new integrated service improves the user experience. To our knowledge, this new service is unique and has not been implemented anywhere else. We will also present some statistics after approximately one year in production.<br />
<br />
See article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7470<br />
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== HTML5 Video Now! ==<br />
<br />
* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jnronall@ncsu.edu<br />
<br />
Can you use HTML5 video now? Yes.<br />
<br />
I'll show you how to get started using HTML5 video, including gotchas, tips, and tricks. Beyond the basics we'll see the power of having video integrated into HTML and the browser. Finally, we'll look at examples that push the limits and show the exciting future of video on the Web.<br />
<br />
My experience comes from technical development of an oral history video clips project. I developed the technical aspects of the project, including video processing, server configuration, development of a public site, creation of an administrative interface, and video engagement analytics. Major portions of this work have been open sourced under an MIT license.<br />
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== Hybrid Archival Collections Using Blacklight and Hydra ==<br />
<br />
* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, awead@rockhall.org<br />
<br />
At the Library and Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we use available tools such as Archivists' Toolkit to create EAD finding aids of our collections. However, managing digital content created from these materials and the born-digital content that is also part of these collections represents a significant challenge. In my presentation, I will discuss how we solve the problem of our hybrid collections by using Hydra as a digital asset manager and Blacklight as a unified presentation and discovery interface for all our materials.<br />
<br />
Our strategy centers around indexing ead xml into Solr as multiple documents: one for each collection, and one for every series, sub-series and item contained within a collection. For discovery, we use this strategy to leverage item-level searching of archival collections alongside our traditional library content. For digital collections, we use this same technique to represent a finding aid in Hydra as a set of linked objects using RDF. New digital items are then linked to these parent objects at the collection and series level. Once this is done, the items can be exported back out to the Blacklight solr index and the digital content appears along with the rest of the items in the collection.<br />
<br />
== Making the Web Accessible through Solid Design ==<br />
<br />
* [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia Ng]] from Ryerson University Library & Archives<br />
<br />
In libraries, we are always trying our best to be accessible to everyone and we make every effort to do so physically, but what about our websites? Web designers are great at talking about the user experience and how to improve it, but what sometimes gets overlooked is how to make a site more accessible and meet accessibility guidelines. While guidelines are necessary to cover a minimum standard, web accessibility should come from good web design without ‘sacrificing’ features. While it's difficult to make a website fully accessible to everyone, there are easy, practical ways to make a site as accessible as possible.<br />
<br />
While the focus will be on websites and meeting the Web Accessibility Guidelines WCAG, the presentation will also touch on how to make custom web interfaces accessible.<br />
<br />
== Getting People to What They Need Fast! A Wayfinding Tool to Locate Books & Much More ==<br />
<br />
* Steven Marsden, Ryerson University Library & Archives, steven dot marsden at ryerson dot ca<br />
* [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia Ng]], Ryerson University Library & Archives<br />
<br />
Having a bewildered, lost user in the building or stacks is a common occurrence, but we can help our users find their way through enhanced maps and floor plans. While not a new concept, these maps are integrated into the user’s flow of information without having to load a special app. The map not only highlights the location, but also provides all the related information with a link back to the detailed item view. During the first stage of the project, it has only be implemented for books (and other physical items), but the 'RULA Finder' is built to help users find just about anything and everything in the library including study rooms, computer labs, and staff. With a simple to use admin interface, it makes it easy for everyone, staff and users. <br />
<br />
The application is written in PHP with data stored in a MySQL database. The end-user interface involves jQuery, JSON, and the library's discovery layer (Summon) API.<br />
<br />
The presentation will not only cover the technical aspects, but also the implementation and usability findings.<br />
<br />
== De-sucking the Library User Experience ==<br />
<br />
* Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University, j-prevost {AT} northwestern [DOT] edu<br />
<br />
Have you ever thought that library vendors purposely create the worst possible user experience they can imagine because they just hate users? Have you ever thought that your own library website feels like it was created by committee rather than for users because, well, it was? I’ll talk about how we used vendor supplied APIs to our ILS and Discovery tool to create an experience for our users that sucks at least a little bit less.<br />
<br />
The talk will provide specific examples of how inefficient or confusing vendor supplied solutions are from a user perspective along with our specific streamlined solutions to the same problems. Code examples will be minimal as the focus will be on improving user experience rather than any one code solution of doing that. Examples may include the seemingly simple tasks of renewing a book or requesting an item from another campus library.<br />
<br />
== Solr Testing Is Easy with Rspec-Solr Gem ==<br />
<br />
* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University, ndushay AT stanford DOT edu<br />
<br />
How do you know if <br />
<br />
* your idea for "left anchoring" searches actually works?<br />
* your field analysis for LC call numbers accommodates a suffix between the first and second cutter without breaking the rest of LC call number parsing?<br />
* tweaking Solr configs to improve, say, Chinese searching, won't break Turkish and Cyrillic?<br />
* changes to your solrconfig file accomplish what you wanted without breaking anything else?<br />
<br />
Avoid the whole app stack when writing Solr acceptance/relevancy/regression tests! Forget cucumber and capybara. This gem lets you easily (only 4 short files needed!) write tests like this, passing arbitrary parameters to Solr:<br />
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it "unstemmed author name Zare should precede stemmed variants" do<br />
resp = solr_response(author_search_args('Zare').merge({'fl'=>'id,author_person_display', 'facet'=>false}))<br />
resp.should include("author_person_display" => /\bZare\W/).in_each_of_first(3).documents<br />
resp.should_not include("author_person_display" => /Zaring/).in_each_of_first(20).documents<br />
end<br />
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it "Cyrillic searching should work: Восемьсoт семьдесят один день" do<br />
resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'Восемьсoт семьдесят один день'})<br />
resp.should include("9091779")<br />
end<br />
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it "q of 'String quartets Parts' and variants should be plausible " do<br />
resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'String quartets Parts'})<br />
resp.should have_at_least(2000).documents<br />
resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'(String quartets Parts)'}))<br />
resp.should have_more_results_than(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'"String quartets Parts"'}))<br />
end<br />
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it "Traditional Chinese chars 三國誌 should get the same results as simplified chars 三国志" do<br />
resp = solr_response({'q'=>'三國誌', 'fl'=>'id', 'facet'=>false}) <br />
resp.should have_at_least(240).documents<br />
resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'三国志'})) <br />
end<br />
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See<br />
http://rubydoc.info/github/sul-dlss/rspec-solr/frames<br />
https://github.com/sul-dlss/rspec-solr<br />
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and our production relevancy/acceptance/regression tests slowly migrating from cucumber to:<br />
https://github.com/sul-dlss/sw_index_tests<br />
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== Northwestern's Digital Image Library ==<br />
<br />
*Mike Stroming, Northwestern University Library, m-stroming AT northwestern DOT edu<br />
*Edgar Garcia, Northwestern University Library, edgar-garcia AT northwestern DOT edu<br />
<br />
At Northwestern University Library, we are about to release a beta version of our Digital Image Library (DIL). DIL is an implementation of the Hydra technology that provides a Fedora repository solution for discovery of and access to over 100,000 images for staff, students, and scholars. Some important features are:<br />
<br />
*Build custom collection of images using drag-and-drop<br />
*Re-order images within a collection using drag-and-drop<br />
*Nest collections within other collections<br />
*Create details/crops of images<br />
*Zoom, rotate images<br />
*Upload personal images<br />
*Retrieve your own uploads and details from a collection<br />
*Export a collection to a PowerPoint presentation<br />
*Create a group of users and authorize access to your images<br />
*Batch edit image metadata<br />
<br />
Our presentation will include a demo, explanation of the architecture, and a discussion of the benefits of being a part of the Hydra open-source community.<br />
<br />
== Two standards in a software (to say nothing of Normarc) ==<br />
<br />
*Zeno Tajoli, CINECA (Italy), z DOT tajoli AT cineca DOT it<br />
<br />
With this presentation I want to show how ILS Koha handles the support of three differnt MARC dialects:<br />
MARC21, Unimarc and Normarc. The main points of the presentation:<br />
<br />
*Three MARC at MySQL level<br />
*Three MARC at API level<br />
*Three MARC at display<br />
*Can I add a new format ?<br />
<br />
== Future Friendly Web Design for Libraries ==<br />
<br />
*[[User:michaelschofield|Michael Schofield]], Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center, mschofied[dot]nova[dot]edu<br />
<br />
Libraries on the web are afterthoughts. Often their design is stymied on one hand by red tape imposed by the larger institution and on the other by an overload of too democratic input from colleagues. Slashed budgets / staff stretched too thin foul-up the R-word (that'd be "redesign") - but things are getting pretty strange. Notions about the Web (and where it can be accessed) are changing. <br />
<br />
So libraries can only avoid refabbing their fixed-width desktop and jQuery Mobile m-dot websites for so long until desktop users evaporate and demand from patrons with web-ready refrigerators becomes deafening. Just when we have largely hopped on the bandwagon and gotten enthusiastic about being online, our users expect a library's site to look and perform great on everything. <br />
<br />
Our presence on the web should be built to weather ever-increasing device complexity. To meet users at their point of need, libraries must start thinking Future Friendly.<br />
<br />
This overview rehashes the approach and philosophy of library web design, re-orienting it for maximum accessibility and maximum efficiency of design. While just 20 minutes, we'll mull over techniques like mobile-first responsive web design, modular CSS, browser feature detection for progressive enhancement, and lots of nifty tricks.<br />
<br />
==BYU's discovery layer service aggregator==<br />
<br />
*Curtis Thacker, Brigham Young University, curtis.thacker AT byu DOT edu<br />
<br />
It is clear that libraries will continue to experience rapid change based on the speed of technology. To acknowledge this new reality and to provide rapid response to shifting end user paradigms BYU has developed a custom service aggregator. At first our vendors looked at us a bit funny; however, in the last year they have been astonished with the fluid implementation of new services – here’s the short list:<br />
<br />
*filmfinder - a tool for browsing and searching films<br />
*A custom book recommender service based on checkout data<br />
*Integrated library services like personell, library hours, study room scheduler and database finder through a custom adwords system.<br />
*A very geeky and powerful utility used for converting marc XML into primo compliant xml.<br />
*Embedded floormaps<br />
*A responsive web design<br />
*Bing did-you-mean<br />
*And many more.<br />
<br />
I will demo the system, review the archtecture and talk about future plans.<br />
<br />
==The Avalon Media System: A Next Generation Hydra Head For Audio and Video Delivery==<br />
<br />
* Michael Klein, Senior Software Developer, Northwestern University LIbrary, michael.klein AT northwestern DOT edu<br />
* Nathan Rogers, Programmer/Analyst, Indiana University, rogersna AT indiana DOT edu<br />
<br />
Based on the success of the [http://www.dml.indiana.edu/ Variations] digital music platform, Indiana University and Northwestern University have developed a next generation educational tool for delivering multimedia resources to the classroom. The Avalon Media System (formerly Variations on Video) supports the ingest, media processing, management, and access-controlled delivery of library-managed video and audio collections. To do so, the system draws on several existing, mature, open source technologies:<br />
<br />
* The ingest, search, and discovery functionality of the Hydra framework<br />
* The powerful multimedia workflow management features of Opencast Matterhorn<br />
* The flexible Engage audio/video player<br />
* The streaming capabilities of both Red5 Media Server (open source) and Adobe Flash Media Server (proprietary)<br />
<br />
Extensive customization options are built into the framework for tailoring the application to the needs of a specific institution.<br />
<br />
Our goal is to create an open platform that can be used by other institutions to serve the needs of the academic community. Release 1 is planned for a late February launch with future versions released every couple of months following. For more information visit http://avalonmediasystem.org/ and https://github.com/variations-on-video/hydrant.<br />
<br />
== The DH Curation Guide: Building a Community Resource == <br />
<br />
*Robin Davis, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, robdavis AT jjay.cuny.edu <br />
*James Little, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, little9 AT illinois.edu <br />
<br />
Data curation for the digital humanities is an emerging area of research and practice. The DH Curation Guide, launched in July 2012, is an educational resource that addresses aspects of humanities data curation in a series of expert-written articles. Each provides a succinct introduction to a topic with annotated lists of useful tools, projects, standards, and good examples of data curation done right. The DH Curation Guide is intended to be a go-to resource for data curation practitioners and learners in libraries, archives, museums, and academic institutions. <br />
<br />
Because it's a growing field, we designed the DH Curation Guide to be a community-driven, living document. We developed a granular commenting system that encourages data curation community members to contribute remarks on articles, article sections, and article paragraphs. Moreover, we built in a way for readers to contribute and annotate resources for other data curation practitioners. <br />
<br />
This talk will address how the DH Curation Guide is currently used and will include a sneak peek at the articles that are in store for the Guide’s future. We will talk about the difficulties and successes of launching a site that encourages community. We are all builders here, so we will also walk through developing the granular commenting/annotation system and the XSLT-powered publication workflow. <br />
<br />
== Solr Update == <br />
<br />
*Erik Hatcher, LucidWorks, erik.hatcher AT lucidworks.com <br />
<br />
Solr is continually improving. Solr 4 was recently released, bringing dramatic changes in the underlying Lucene library and Solr-level features. It's tough for us all to keep up with the various versions and capabilities.<br />
<br />
This talk will blaze through the highlights of new features and improvements in Solr 4 (and up). Topics will include: SolrCloud, direct spell checking, surround query parser, and many other features. We will focus on the features library coders really need to know about.<br />
<br />
== Reports for the People == <br />
<br />
*Kara Young, Keene State College, NH, kyoung1 at keene.edu<br />
*Dana Clark, Keene State College, NH, dclark5 at keene.edu<br />
<br />
Libraries are increasingly being called upon to provide information on how our programs and services are moving our institutional strategic goals forward. In support of College and departmental Information Literacy learning outcomes, Mason Library Systems at Keene State College developed an assessment database to record and report assessment activities by Library faculty. Frustrated by the lack of freely available options for intuitively recording, accounting for, and outputting useful reports on instructional activities, Librarians requested a tool to make capturing and reporting activities (and their lives) easier. Library Systems was able to respond to this need by working with librarians to identify what information is necessary to capture, where other assessment tools had fallen short, and ultimately by developing an application that supports current reporting imperatives while providing flexibility for future changes.<br />
<br />
The result of our efforts was an in-house browser interfaced Assessment Database to improve the process of data collection and analysis. The application is written in PHP, data stored in a MySQL database, and presented via browser making extensive use of JQuery and JQuery plug-ins for data collection, manipulation, and presentation. <br />
The presentation will outline the process undertaken to build a successful collaboration with Library faculty from conception to implementation, as well as the technical aspects of our trial-and-error approach. Plus: cool charts and graphs!<br />
<br />
== Network Analyses of Library Catalog Data ==<br />
<br />
* Kirk Hess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, kirkhess AT illinois.edu<br />
* Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, green19 AT illinois.edu <br />
<br />
Library collections are all too often like icebergs: The amount exposed on the surface is only a fraction of the actual amount of content, and we’d like to recommend relevant items from deep within the catalog to users. With the assistance of an XSEDE Allocation grant (http://xsede.org), we’ve used R to reconstitute anonymous circulation data from the University of Illinois’s library catalog into separate user transactions. The transaction data is incorporated into subject analyses that use XSEDE supercomputing resources to generate predictive network analyses and visualizations of subject areas searched by library users using Gephi (https://gephi.org/). The test data set for developing the subject analyses consisted of approximately 38,000 items from the Literatures and Languages Library that contained 110,000 headings and 130,620 transactions. We’re currently working on developing a recommender system within VuFind to display the results of these analyses.<br />
<br />
== Pitfall! Working with Legacy Born Digital Materials in Special Collections ==<br />
<br />
* Donald Mennerich, The New York Public Library, don.mennerich AT gmail.com<br />
* Mark A. Matienzo, Yale University Library, mark AT matienzo.org<br />
<br />
Archives and special collections are being faced with a growing abundance of born digital material, as well as an abundance of many promising tools for managing them. However, one must consider the potential problems that can arise when approaching a collection containing legacy materials (from roughly the pre-internet era). Many of the tried and true, "best of breed" tools for digital preservation don't always work as they do for more recent materials, requiring a fair amount of ingenuity and use of "word of mouth tradecraft and knowledge exchanged through serendipitous contacts, backchannel conversations, and beer" (Kirschenbaum, "Breaking <code>badflag</code>").<br />
<br />
Our presentation will focus on some of the strange problems encountered and creative solutions devised by two digital archivists in the course of preserving, processing, and providing access to collections at their institutions. We'll be placing particular particular emphasis of the pitfalls and crocodiles we've learned to swing over safely, while collecting treasure in the process. We'll address working with CP/M disks in collections of authors' papers, reconstructing a multipart hard drive backup spread across floppy disks, and more. <br />
<br />
== Project <s>foobar</s> FUBAR ==<br />
<br />
* Becky Yoose, Grinnell College, yoosebec AT grinnell DOT edu<br />
<br />
Be it mandated from Those In A Higher Pay Grade Than You or self-inflicted, many of us deal with managing major library-related technology projects [1]. It’s common nowadays to manage multiple technology projects, and generally external and internal issues can be planned for to minimize project timeline shifts and quality of deliverables. Life, however, has other plans for you, and all your major library technology infrastructure projects pile on top of each other at the same time. How do you and your staff survive a train wreck of technology projects and produce deliverables to project stakeholders without having to go into the library IT version of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program?<br />
<br />
This session covers my experience with the collision of three major library technology projects - including a new institutional repository and an integrated library system migration - and how we dealt with external and internal factors, implemented damage control, and overall lessening the damage from the epic crash. You might laugh, you might cry, you will probably have flashbacks from previous projects, but you will come out of this session with a set of tools to use when you’re dealing with managing mission-critical projects.<br />
<br />
[1] Past code4lib talks have covered specific project management strategies, such as Agile, for application development. I will be focusing on and discussing general project management practices in relation to various library technology projects, many of which these strategies include in their own structures.<br />
<br />
== Implementing RFID in an Academic Library == <br />
<br />
* Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University, sbacon AT coastal DOT edu<br />
<br />
Coastal Carolina University’s Kimbel Library recently implemented RFID to increase security, provide better inventory control over library materials and enable do-it-yourself patron services such as self checkout. <br />
<br />
I’ll give a quick overview of RFID and the components involved and then will talk about how our library utilized the technology. It takes a lot of research, time, money and not too little resourcefulness to make your library RFID-ready. I’ll show how we developed our project timeline, how we assessed and evaluated vendors and how we navigated the bid process. I’ll also talk about hardware and software installation, configuration and troubleshooting and will discuss our book and media collection encoding process. <br />
<br />
We encountered myriad issues with our vendor, the hardware and the software. Would we do it all over again? Should your library consider RFID? Caveats abound...<br />
<br />
== Coding an Academic Library Intranet in Drupal: Now We're Getting Organizized... ==<br />
<br />
* Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University, sbacon AT coastal DOT edu<br />
<br />
The Kimbel Library Intranet is coded in Drupal 7, and was created to increase staff communication and store documentation. This presentation will contain an overview of our intranet project, including the modules we used, implementation issues, and possible directions in future development phases. I won’t forget to talk about the slew of tasty development issues we faced, including dealing with our university IT department, user buy-in, site navigation, user roles, project management, training and mobile modules (or the lack thereof). And some other fun (mostly) true anecdotes will surely be shared. <br />
<br />
The main functions of Phase I of this project were to increase communication across departments and committees, facilitate project management and revise the library's shared drive. Another important function of this first phase was to host mission-critical documentation such as strategic goals, policies and procedures. Phase II of this project will focus on porting employee tasks into the centralized intranet environment. This development phase, which aims to replicate and automate the bulk of staff workflows within a content management system, will be a huge undertaking. <br />
<br />
We chose Drupal as our intranet platform because of its extensibility, flexibility and community support. We are also moving our entire library web presence to Drupal in 2013 and will be soliciting any advice on which modules to use/avoid and which third-party services to wrangle into the Drupal environment. Should we use Drupal as the back-end to our entire Web presence? Why or why not?<br />
<br />
== Hands off! Best Practices and Top Ten Lists for Code Handoffs ==<br />
<br />
* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University Library, ndushay@stanford.edu<br />
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu<br />
<br />
Transition points in who is the primary developer on an actively developing code base can be a source of frustration for everyone involved. We've tried to minimize that pain point as much as possible through the use of agile methods like test driven development, continuous integration, and modular design. Has optimizing for developer happiness brought us happiness? What's worked, what hasn't, and what's worth adopting? How do you keep your project in a state where you can easily hand it off? <br />
<br />
== How to be an effective evangelist for your open source project ==<br />
<br />
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu<br />
<br />
The difference between an open source software project that gets new adopters and new contributing community members (which is to say, a project that goes on existing for any length of time) and a project that doesn't, often isn't a question of superior design or technology. It's more often a question of whether the advocates for the project can convince institutional leaders AND front line developers that a project is stable and trustworthy. What are successful strategies for attracting development partners? I'll try to answer that and talk about what we could do as a community to make collaboration easier. <br />
<br />
== Thoughts from an open source vendor - What makes a "good" vendor in a meritocracy? ==<br />
<br />
* Matt Zumwalt, Data Curation Experts / MediaShelf / Hydra Project, matt@curationexperts.com<br />
<br />
What is the role of vendors in open source? What should be the position of vendors in a meritocracy? What are the avenues for encouraging great vendors who contribute to open source communities in valuable ways? How you answer these questions has a huge impact on a community, and in order to formulate strong answers, you need to be well informed. Let’s glimpse at the business practicalities of this situation, beginning with 1) an overview of the viable profit models for open-source software, 2) some of the realities of vendor involvement in open source, and 3) an account of the ins & outs of compensation & equity structures within for-profit corporations.<br />
<br />
The topics of power & influence, fairness, community participation, software quality, employment and personal profit are fair game, along with software licensing, support, sponsorship, closed source software and the role of sales people.<br />
<br />
This presentation will draw on personal experience from the past seven years spent bootstrapping and running MediaShelf, a small but prolific for-profit consulting company that focuses entirely on open source digital repository software. MediaShelf has played an active role in creating the Hydra Framework and continuously contributes to maintenance of Fedora and Blacklight. Those contributions have been funded through consulting contracts for authoring & implementing open source software on behalf of organizations around the world.<br />
<br />
==Occam’s Reader: A system that allows the sharing of eBooks via Interlibrary Loan==<br />
<br />
*Ryan Litsey, Texas Tech University, Ryan DOT Litsey AT ttu.edu<br />
*Kenny Ketner, Texas Tech University, Kenny DOT Ketner AT ttu.edu<br />
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Occam’s Reader is a software platform that allows the transfer and sharing of electronic books between libraries via existing interlibrary loan software. Occam’s Reader allows libraries to meet the growing need to be able to share our electronic resources. In the ever-increasing digital world, many of our collection development plans now include eBook platforms. The problem with eBooks, however, is that they are resources that are locked into the home library. With Occam’s Reader we can continue the centuries-old tradition of resource sharing and also keep up with the changing digital landscape. <br />
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== Using Puppet for configuration management when no two servers look alike ==<br />
* Eugene Vilensky, Senior Systems Administrator, Northwestern University Library, evilensky northwestern edu<br />
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Configuration management is hot because it allows one to scale to thousands of machines, all of which look alike, and tightly manage changes across the nodes. Infrastructure as code, implement all changes programmatically, yadda yadda yadda.<br />
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Unfortunately, servers which have gone unmanaged for a long time do not look very similar to each other. Variables come in many forms, usually because of some or all of the following: Who installed the server, where it was installed, where the image was sourced from, when it was installed, where additional packages were sourced, and what kind of software was hosted on it.<br />
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Bringing such machines into your configuration management platform is no harder and no easier than some or all of the following options options: 1) blow such machines away and start from scratch, migrate your data. 2) Find the lowest common baseline between the current state and the ideal state and start the work there. 3) implement new features/services on existing unmanaged machines but manage the new features/services.<br />
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I will describe our experiences at the library for all three options using the Puppet open-source tool on Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.<br />
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== REST <b>IS</b> Your Mobile Strategy ==<br />
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* Richard Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago, richwolf@uic.edu<br />
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Mobile is the new hotness ... and you can't be one of the cool kids unless you've got your own mobile app ... but the road to mobility is daunting. I'll argue that it's actually easier than it seems ... and that the simplest way to mobility is to bring your data to the party, create a REST API around the data, tell developers about your API, and then let the magic happen. To make my argument concrete, I'll show (lord help me!) how to go from an interesting REST API to a fun iOS tool for librarians and the general public in twenty minutes.<br />
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== ARCHITECTING ScholarSphere: How We Built a Repository App That Doesn't Feel Like Yet Another Janky Old Repository App ==<br />
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* Dan Coughlin, Penn State University, danny@psu.edu<br />
* Mike Giarlo, Penn State University, michael@psu.edu<br />
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ScholarSphere is a web application that allows the Penn State research community to deposit, share, and manage its scholarly works. It is also, as some of our users and our peers have observed, a repository app that feels much more like Google Docs or GitHub than earlier-generation repository applications. ScholarSphere is built upon the Hydra framework (Fedora Commons, Solr, Blacklight, Ruby on Rails), MySQL, Redis, Resque, FITS, ImageMagick, jQuery, Bootstrap, and FontAwesome. We'll talk about techniques we used to:<br />
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* eliminate Fedora-isms in the application<br />
* model and expose RDF metadata in ways that users find unobtrusive<br />
* manage permissions via a UI widget that doesn't stab you in the face<br />
* harvest and connect controlled vocabularies (such as LCSH) to forms<br />
* make URIs cool<br />
* keep the app snappy without venturing into the architectural labyrinth of YAGNI<br />
* build and queue background jobs<br />
* expose social features and populate activity streams<br />
* tie checksum verification, characterization, and version control to the UI<br />
* let users upload and edit multiple files at once<br />
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The application will be demonstrated; code will be shown; and we solemnly commit to showing ABSOLUTELY NO XML.<br />
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==Coding with Mittens==<br />
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*Jim LeFager, DePaul University Library jlefager@depaul.edu<br />
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Working in an environment where developers have restricted access to servers and development areas, or where you are primarily working in multiple hosted systems with limited access, can be a challenge when you are attempting to incorporate any new functionality or improve an existing one. Hosted web services present a benefit so that staff time is not dedicated to server maintenance and development, but customization can be difficult and at times impossible. In many cases, incorporating any current API functionality requires additional work besides the original development work which can be frustrating and inefficient. The result can be a Frankenstein monster of web services that is confusing to the user and difficult to navigate. <br />
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This talk will focus on some effective best practices, and maybe not so great but necessary practices that we have adopted to develop and improve our user’s experience using javascript/jQuery and CSS to manipulate our hosted environments. This will include a review of available tools that allow collaborative development in the cloud, as well as examples of jQuery methods that have allowed us to take additional control of these hosted environments as well as track them using Google Analytics. Included will be examples from Springshare Campus Guides, CONTENTdm and other hosted web spaces that have been ‘hacked’ to improve the UI. <br />
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== Hacking the DPLA ==<br />
* Nate Hill, Chattanooga Public Library, nathanielhill AT gmail.com<br />
* Sam Klein, Wikipedia, metasj AT gmail.com<br />
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The Digital Public Library of America is a growing open-source platform to support digital libraries and archives of all kinds. DPLA-alpha is available for testing, with data from six initial Hubs. New APIs and data feeds are in development, with the next release scheduled for April. <br />
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Come learn what we are doing, how to contribute or hack the DPLA roadmap, and how you (or your favorite institution) can draw from and publish through it. Larger institutions can join as a (content or service) hub, helping to aggregate and share metadata and services from across their {region, field, archive-type}. We will discuss current challenges and possibilities (UI and API suggestions wanted!), apps being built on the platform, and related digitization efforts.<br />
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DPLA has a transparent community and planning process; new participants are always welcome. Half the time will be for suggestions and discussion. Please bring proposals, problems, partnerships and possible paradoxes to discuss.<br />
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== Introduction to SilverStripe 3.0 ==<br />
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* Ian Walls, University of Massachusetts Amherst, iwalls AT library DOT umass DOT edu<br />
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SilverStripe is an open source Content Management System/development framework out of New Zealand, written in PHP, with a solid MVC structure. This presentation will cover everything you need to know to get started with SilverStripe, including<br />
* Features (and why you should consider SilverStripe)<br />
* Requirements & Installation<br />
* Model-View-Controller<br />
* Key data types & configuration settings<br />
* Modules<br />
* Where to start with customization<br />
* Community support and participation<br />
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== Citation search in SOLR and second-order operators ==<br />
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* Roman Chyla, Astrophysics Data System, roman.chyla AT (cfa.harvad.edu|gmail.com)<br />
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Citation search is basically about connections (Is the paper read by a friend of mine more important than others? Get me a paper read by somebody who cites many papers/is cited by many papers?), but the implementation of the citation search is surprisingly useful in many other areas.<br />
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I will show 'guts' of the new citation search for astrophysics, it is generic and can be applied recursively to any Lucene query. Some people would call it a second-order operation because it works with the results of the previous (search) function. The talk will see technical details of the special query class, its collectors, how to add a new search operator and how to influence relevance scores. Then you can type with me: friends_of(friends_of(cited_for(keyword:"black holes") AND keyword:"red dwarf"))<br />
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== Managing Segmented Images and Hierarchical Collections with Fedora-Commons and Solr ==<br />
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* David Lacy, Villanova University, david DOT lacy AT villanova.edu<br />
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Many of the resources within our digital library are split into parts -- newspapers, scrapbooks and journals being examples of collections of individual scanned pages. In some cases, groups of pages within a collection, or segments within a particular page, may also represent chapters or articles.<br />
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We recently devised a procedure to extract these "segmented resources" into their own objects within our repository, and index them individually in our Discovery Layer.<br />
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In this talk I will explain how we dissected and organized these newly created resources with an extension to our Fedora Model, and how we make them discoverable through Solr configurations that facilitate browsable hierarchical relationships and field-collapsed results that group items within relevant resources.<br />
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== Google Analytics, Event Tracking and Discovery Tools==<br />
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* Emily Lynema, North Carolina State University Libraries. ejlynema AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
* Adam Constabaris, North Carolina State University Libraries, ajconsta AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
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The NCSU Libraries is using Google Analytics increasingly across its website as a replacement for usage tracking via Urchin. More recently, we have also begun to use the event tracking features in Google Analytics. This has allowed us to gather usage statistics for activities that don’t initiate new requests to the server, such as clicks that hide and show already-loaded content (as in many tabbed interfaces). Aggregating these events together with pageview tracking in Google Analytics presents a more unified picture of patron activity and can help improve design of tools like the library catalog. While assuming a basic understanding of the use of Google Analytics pageview tracking, this presentation will start with an introduction to the event tracking capabilities that may be less widely known. <br />
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We’ll share library catalog usage data pulled from Google Analytics, including information about features that are common across the newest wave of catalog interfaces, such as tabbed content, Google Preview, and shelf browse. We will also cover the approach taken for the technical implementation of this data-intensive JavaScript event tracking.<br />
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As a counterpart, we can demonstrate how we have begun to use Google Analytics event tracking in a proprietary vendor discovery tool (Serials Solutions Summon). While the same technical ideas govern this implementation, we can highlight the differences (read, challenges) inherent in utilizing this type of event tracking in vendor-owned application vs. a locally developed application.<br />
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Along the way, hopefully you’ll learn a little about why you might (or might not) want to use Google Analytics event tracking yourself and see some interesting catalog usage stats.<br />
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== Actions speak louder than words: Analyzing large-scale query logs to improve the research experience ==<br />
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* Raman Chandrasekar, Serials Solutions, Raman DOT Chandrasekar AT serialssolutions DOT com<br />
* Ted Diamond, Serials Solutions, Ted DOT Diamond AT serialssolutions DOT com<br />
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Analyzing anonymized query and click through logs leads to a better understanding of user behaviors and intentions and provides great opportunities to respond to users with an improved search experience. A large-scale provider of SaaS services, Serials Solutions is uniquely positioned to learn from the dataset of queries aggregated from the Summon service generated by millions of users at hundreds of libraries around the world.<br />
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In this session, we will describe our Relevance Metrics Framework and provide examples of insights gained during its development and implementation. We will also cover recent product changes inspired by these insights. Chandra and Ted, from the Summon dev team, will share insights and outcomes from this ongoing process and highlight how analysis of large-scale query logs helps improve the academic research experience.<br />
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== Supporting Gaming in the College Classroom == <br />
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*Megan O'Neill, Albion College, moneill AT albion DOT edu<br />
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Faculty are increasingly interested both in teaching with games and with gamifying their courses. Introducing digital games and game support for faculty through the library makes a lot of sense, but it comes with a thorny set of issues. This talk will discuss our library's initial steps toward creating a digital gamerspace and game support infrastructure in the library, including:<br />
1) The scope and acquisitions decisions that make the most sense for us, and 2) Some difficulties we've discovered in trying to get our collection, physical- , digital- and head-space, and infrastructure up and going.<br />
There will also be an extremely brief overview of WHY we decided to teach with games and to support gamification, what (if anything) to do about mobile gaming, and where games in education might be going.<br />
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== Codecraft ==<br />
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* Devon Smith, OCLC Research, smithde@oclc.org<br />
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We can think of and talk about software development as science, engineering, and craft. In this presentation, I'll talk about the craft aspect of software. From Wikipedia[1]: "In English, to describe something as a craft is to describe it as lying somewhere between an art (which relies on talent and technique) and a science (which relies on knowledge). In this sense, the English word craft is roughly equivalent to the ancient Greek term techne." Of the questions who, what, where, why, when, and how, I will focus on why and how, with a minor in where.<br />
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'''N.B.''': This will be a NON-TECHNICAL talk.<br />
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft#Classification<br />
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== KnowBot: A Tool to Manage Reference and Beyond == <br />
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* Sarah Park, Northwest Missouri State University<br />
* Hong Gyu Han, Northwest Missouri State University<br />
* Lori Mardis, Northwest Missouri State University<br />
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Northwest Missouri State University has developed and used RefPole for collecting and analyzing reference statistics since 2005. RefPole was a tool to answer librarians’ needs to manage reference statistics and knowledge among librarians. It was an analysis tool for the library leaders to make decisions on library operations. RefPole was adequate for the internal use; however, it was developed for local access which keeps the collective reference knowledge from being shared beyond the desktop and from being accessed by students and faculty. <br />
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In 2011, responding to growing internal and external need, the library has developed a web based knowledge base management system, KnowBot, in Ruby on Rail. KnowBot offers public searching, rating, cloud tagging, librarian, and reporting interfaces. With the additional public interfaces, it also extended reference services 24/7. Librarians can record responses to questions with graphics and multimedia. The reporting interface features not only the simple transactional data, but it also exhibits multi-dimensional analytic tool in real time.<br />
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The presenters will demonstrate KnowBot; share the source code; and discuss the use of the knowledge base to answer the organizational and public need.<br />
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== Creating a (mostly) integrated Patron Account with SirsiDynix Symphony and ILLiad ==<br />
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* Emily Lynema, North Carolina State University Libraries, ejlynema AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
* Jason Raitz, North Carolina State University Libraries, jcraitz AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
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IIn 2012, the NCSU Libraries at long last replaced a vendor “my account” tool that had been running unsupported for years. With the opportunity to create something new, one of the initial goals was a user experience that more seamlessly combined ILS data from SirsiDynix Symphony with ILL data from ILLiad. As a Kuali OLE beta partner, the NCSU Libraries is looking at an ILS migration within the next few years, so another goal was to build the interface on top of a standard so it would not have to be re-written as part of the migration. And the icing on the cake was a transition from a local Perl-based authentication system to the newer campus-wide Shibboleth authentication.<br />
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This presentation will start with our design goals for a new user interface, include a demonstration, and describe the simple techniques used to provide a more integrated view of Symphony and ILLiad patron data. The backbone of the actual application is built using Zend’s PHP Framework and integrates eXtensible Catalog’s NCIP Toolkit to reach out to Symphony for patron data. In addition, we can talk about our successes (and difficulties) using jQuery Mobile to create a mobile view using the same underlying code as the web version. As one of our first Shibboleth applications here in the Libraries, this experience also taught us first-hand about some of the challenges of this type of single sign-on.<br />
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== SKOS Name Authority in a DSpace Institutional Repository ==<br />
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* Tom Johnson, Oregon State University, thomas.johnson@oregonstate.edu<br />
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Name ambiguity is widespread in institutional repositories. Searching by author, users are typically greeted by a variety of misspellings and permutations of initials, collision between contributors with similar names, and other problems inherent in uncontrolled (often user-submitted) data. While DSpace has the technical capacity to use controlled names, it relies on outside authority files (from LoC, for example) to do the heavy lifting. For institutional authors, this leaves a major coverage gap and creates namespace pollution on a vast scale (try searching [http://authorities.loc.gov authorities.loc.gov] for "Johnson, John", sometime). <br />
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OSU is solving this problem with an institutionally scoped, low maintenance SKOS/FOAF "name authority file". People in the IR are assigned URIs, names are maintained as skos:prefLabel, altLabel, or hiddenLabel. We've developed a simple Python application allowing staff to update individual "records", and code on the DSpace side to access the dataset over SPARQL. This presentation will walk you through where we are now, limitations we've run into, and possibilities for the future.<br />
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== Meta-Harvesting: Harvesting the Harvesters ==<br />
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* Steven Anderson, Boston Public Library, sanderson AT bpl DOT org<br />
* Eben English, Boston Public Library, eenglish AT bpl DOT org<br />
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The emerging Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la/) has proposed to aggregate digital content for search and discovery from several regional "service hubs" that will provide metadata via an as-yet-unspecified harvest process. As these service hubs are already harvesters of digital content from myriad sources themselves, the potential for "telephone game"-esque data loss and/or transmutation is a significant danger.<br />
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This talk will discuss the experience of Digital Commonwealth (http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/), a statewide digital repository currently in the process of being revamped, refactored, and redesigned by the Boston Public Library using the Hydra Framework. The repository, which aggregates data from over 20 institutions (some of which are themselves aggregators), is also undergoing a massive metadata cleanup effort as records are prepared to be ingested into the DPLA as one of the regional service hubs. Topics will include automated and manual processes for data crosswalking and cleanup, advanced OAI-PMH chops, and the implications of the (at this time still-emerging) metadata standards and APIs being created by the DPLA.<br />
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Every crosswalk, transformation, migration, harvest, or export/ingest of metadata requires informed decision making and precise attention to detail. This talk will provide insight into key decision points and potential quagmires, as well as a discussion of the challenges of dealing with heterogeneous data from a wide variety of institutions.<br />
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== Pay No More Than £3 // DIY Digital Curation ==<br />
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* Chris Fitzpatrick, World Maritime University, cf AT wmu DOT se<br />
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Are you a small library or archive? <br><br />
Do you feel you are being held back by limited technical resources?<br><br />
Tired of waiting around for the Google Books Library people to reply to your emails? <br><br />
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Join the club. Open-source software, hackerspaces, dirt cheap storage, cloud computing, and social media make it possible for any institution to start curating digitally. Today.<br />
This talk will cover some of the guerrilla tactics being employed to drag a small university's large collection into the internet age. <br />
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Topics will include: <br />
*Cheap and effective document scanning methods.<br />
*Valuable resources found at your local hackerspace / makerspace / fablab.<br />
*Metadata enrichment for the not-so-rich and NLP for the people.<br />
*Utilizing social media to crowdsource your collection building.<br />
*How to post-process, OCR, PDF, and ePub your documents using Free software.<br />
*Ways to build out a digital repository with no servers, code, or large 2-year grants required. (ok, maybe some code).<br />
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== IIIF: One Image Delivery API to Rule Them All ==<br />
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* Willy Mene, Stanford University Libraries, wmene AT stanford DOT edu<br />
* Stuart Snydman, Stanford University Libraries, snydman AT stanford DOT edu<br />
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The International Image Interoperability Framework was conceived of by a group of research and national libraries determined to achieve the holy grail of seamless sharing and reuse of images in digital image repositories and applications. By converging on common API’s for image delivery, metadata transmission and search, it is catalyzing the development of a new wave of interoperable image delivery software that will surpass the current crop of image viewers, page turners, and navigation systems, and in so doing give scholars an unprecedented level of consistent and rich access to image-based resources across participating repositories.<br />
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The IIIF Image API (http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api) specifies a web service that returns an image in response to a standard http or https request. The URL can specify the region, size, rotation, quality characteristics and format of the requested image. A URL can also be constructed to request basic technical information about the image to support client applications. The API could be adopted by any image repository or service, and can be used to retrieve static images in response to a properly constructed URL.<br />
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In this presentation we will review version 1 of the IIIF image api and validator, demonstrate applications by daring early adopters, and encourage widespread adoption.<br />
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== Data-Driven Documents: Visualizing library data with D3.js ==<br />
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* Bret Davidson, North Carolina State University Libraries, bret_davidson@ncsu.edu<br />
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Several JavaScript libraries have emerged over the past few years for creating rich, interactive visualizations using web standards. Few are as powerful and flexible as D3.js[1]. D3 stands apart by merging web standards with a rich API and a unique approach to binding data to DOM elements, allowing you to apply data-driven transformations to a document. This emphasis on data over presentation has made D3 very popular; D3 is used by several prominent organizations including the New York Times[2], GOV.UK[3], and Trulia[4].<br />
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Power usually comes at a cost, and D3 makes you pay with a steeper learning curve than many alternatives. In this talk, I will get you over the hump by introducing the core construct of D3, the Data-Join. I will also discuss when you might want to use D3.js, share some examples, and explore some advanced utilities like scales and shapes. I will close with a brief overview of how we are successfully using D3 at NCSU[5] and why investing time in learning D3 might make sense for your library.<br />
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*[1]http://d3js.org/<br />
*[2]http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/24/us/drought-crops.html<br />
*[3]https://www.gov.uk/performance/dashboard<br />
*[4]http://trends.truliablog.com/vis/pricerange-boston/<br />
*[5]http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/spaceassesstool<br />
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== ''n'' Characters in Search of an Author ==<br />
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* Jay Luker, IT Specialist, Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System, jluker@cfa.harvard.edu<br />
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When it comes to author names the disconnect between our metadata and what a user might enter into a search box presents challenges when trying to maximize both precision and recall [0]. When indexing a paper written by "Wäterwheels, A" a goal should be to preserve as much as possible the original information. However, users searching by author name may frequently omit the diaeresis and search for simply, "Waterwheels". The reverse of this scenario is also possible, i.e., your decrepit metadata contains only the ASCII, "Supybot, Zoia", whereas the user enters, "Supybot, Zóia". If recall is your highest priority the simple solution is to always downgrade to ASCII when indexing and querying. However this strategy sacrifices precision, as you will be unable to provide an "exact" search, necessary in cases where "Hacker, J" and "Häcker, J" really are two distinct authors.<br />
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This talk will describe the strategy ADS[1] has devised for addressing common and edge-case problems faced when dealing with author name indexing and searching. I will cover the approach we devised to not only the transliteration issue described above, but also how we deal with author initials vs. full first and/or middle names, authors who have published under different forms of their name, authors who change their names (wha? people get married?!). Our implementation relies on Solr/Lucene[2], but my goal is an 80/20 mix of high- vs. low-level details to keep things both useful and stackgnostic [3].<br />
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*[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall<br />
*[1] http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/<br />
*[2] http://lucene.apache.org/solr/<br />
*[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau<br />
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== But, does it all still work : Testing Drupal with simpletest and casperjs ==<br />
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* David Kinzer - Lead Developer, Jenkins Law Library, dkinzer@jenkinslaw.org<br />
* Chad Nelson - Developer, Jenkins Law Library, cnelson@jenkinslaw.org<br />
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Most developers know that they should be writing tests along with their code, but not every developer knows how or where to get started. This talk will walk through the nuts and bolts of the testing a medium-sized Drupal site with many integrated moving parts. We’ll talk about unit testing of individual functions with [http://www.simpletest.org/en/overview.html SimpleTest] (and how that has changed how we write functions), functional testing of the user interface with [http://casperjs.org/ casperjs]. We will discuss automating deployment with [http://www.phing.info/ phing], [http://drupal.org/project/drush drush], [http://jenkins-ci.org/ jenkins-ci] & github, which, combined with our tests, removes the “hold-your-breath” feeling before updating our live site. <br />
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== Relations, Recommendations and PostgreSQL ==<br />
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* William Denton, Web Librarian, York University, wdenton@yorku.ca<br />
* Dan Scott, Systems Librarian, Laurentian University, dscott@laurentian.ca<br />
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In 2012, a ragtag group of library hackers from various Ontario <br />
universities, funded with only train tickets and fueled with Tim Hortons <br />
coffee, assembled under the Scholars Portal banner to build a common <br />
circulation data repository and recommendation engine: the Scholars <br />
Portal Library Usage-based Recommendation Engine (SPLURGE). PostgreSQL, <br />
the emerging darling of the old-school relational database world, is the <br />
heart of SPLURGE, and the circulation data for Ontario's 400,000 <br />
university students is its blood. Two of the contributors to this effort explore the PostgreSQL features <br />
that SPLURGE uses to ease administration efforts, simplify application <br />
development, and deliver high performance results. If you don't use <br />
PostgreSQL for your data, you might want to try it after this <br />
presentation; if you already do, you'll pick up some new tips and tricks.<br />
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== A Cure for Romnesia: Site Story Web-Archiving ==<br />
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* Harihar Shankar, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, harihar@lanl.gov<br />
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The web changes constantly, erasing both inconvenient facts and<br />
fictions. At web-scale, preservation organizations cannot be expected<br />
to keep up by using traditional crawling, and they already miss many<br />
important versions. The cure for this is to capture the interactions<br />
between real browsers and the server, and push these into an archive<br />
for safe keeping rather than trying to guess when pages change.<br />
<br />
Every time the Apache Web Server sends data to a browser, SiteStory’s<br />
Apache Module also pushes this data to the SiteStory Web Archive. The<br />
same version of a resource will not be archived more than once, no<br />
matter how many times it has been requested. The resulting archive is<br />
effectively representative of a server's entire history, although<br />
versions of resources that are never requested by a browser will also<br />
never be archived.<br />
<br />
In this presentation I will give an overview of SiteStory, an<br />
Open-Source project written in Java that runs as an application under<br />
Tomcat 6 or greater. SiteStory’s Apache Module is written in C. I will<br />
also demonstrate the TimeMap tool that visualizes versions of a<br />
resource available in the SiteStory archive. The TimeMap tool is a<br />
Firefox browser extension that plots versions of a resource on a<br />
SIMILE timeline. Since the tools uses the Memento protocol, it can<br />
also display versions of resources available in Memento compliant web<br />
archives and content management systems.<br />
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== Practical Relevance Ranking for 10 million books. ==<br />
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* Tom Burton-West, University of Michigan Library, tburtonw@umich.edu<br />
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[http://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust Full-text search] indexes the full-text and metadata for over 10 million books. There are many challenges in tuning relevance ranking for a collection of this size. This talk will discuss some of the underlying issues, some of our experiments to improve relevance ranking, and our ongoing efforts to develop a principled framework for testing changes to relevance ranking.<br />
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Some of the topics covered will include:<br />
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* Length normalization for indexing the full-text of book-length documents<br />
* Indexing granularity for books<br />
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*Testing new features in Solr 4.0:<br />
**New ranking formulas that should work better with book-length documents: BM25 and DFR.<br />
**Grouping/Field Collapsing. Can we index 3 billion pages and then use Solr's field collapsing feature to rank books according to the most relevant page(s)?<br />
**Finite State Automota/Block Trees for storing the in-memory index to the index. Will this allow us to allow wildcards/truncation despite over 2 billion unique terms per index?<br />
<br />
*Relevance testing methodologies:Query log analysis, Click models, Interleaving, A/B testing, and Test collection based evaluation.<br />
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*Testing of a new high-performance storage system to be installed in early 2013. We will report on any tests we are able to run prior to conference time.<br />
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== Browser/Javascript Integration Testing with Ruby ==<br />
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* Jessie Keck, Stanford University, jkeck at stanford dot edu<br />
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It's near impossible to build a rich web application without javascript. We have a lot of great patterns to follow, such as progressive enhancement, to make sure our rich web applications are usable, accessible, and testable. However; when javascript is involved the possibility exists that bugs can be introduced that won't get caught by most unit and integration testing frameworks.<br />
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This is where Watir (pronounced water) comes in. Watir can be used with popular ruby testing frameworks like RSpec and Capybara. This talk will show how to use the combination of these tools to write RSpec tests using Watir to spin up an application in a variety of browsers, navigate the application, and make assertions about the page using Capybara.<br />
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Tests using Watir are written in ruby but they don't necessarily need to test ruby application. You can test any application that you can point a browser at, so there are a wide variety of potential uses for tests written with Watir.<br />
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== Immanentizing the Google ==<br />
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* Will Sexton, Duke University Libraries, will.sexton@duke.edu<br />
* Sean Aery, Duke University Libraries, sean.aery@duke.edu<br />
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We're using a "Google-as-a-Service" approach to reduce the complexity and cost of maintaining a structured-data discovery platform for digitized collections and other library-generated content. Our work picks up from a paper in the code4lib Journal by NCSU's Jason Ranollo [1], introducing the idea of embedded HTML microdata for library digital collections. We've extended our RDAa Lite/schema.org implementation by using Google Site Search to develop a customized interface. In our talk, we'll demonstrate how to set up an instance of Site Search, how to customize the display of results, and how to use the platform's filtering, sorting and other useful functions. We'll also report on our analysis of usage data, and discuss our strategy for scaling the system to support global site search in an upcoming library-wide CMS migration project.<br />
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== Evolving Towards a Consortium MARCR Redis Datastore ==<br />
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* Jeremy Nelson, Colorado College, jeremy.nelson@coloradocollege.edu<br />
* Sheila Yeh, University of Denver, Sheila.Yeh@du.edu<br />
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The current state of technology in library automation is not keeping pace with the explosive growth in information storage and retrieval system. The lag costs institutions as well as users’ resource discovery. To address this problem, we should look into how successfully enterprise such as Craigslist and StackOverflow manage and scale their enormous volume of data. The key lies in the Redis, a NoSQL open source advanced key-value data structure server. Therefore, Colorado College and the University of Denver, along with the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries are exploring and co-developing a MARCR Redis Datastore. It is a peer-to-peer bibliographic datastore, modeled using the Library of Congress Bibliographic Framework's new Linked Data based MARC 21 replacement, called MARCR (MARC Resources). The structure of MARCR leads itself to an advanced Consortium catalog where a Work is cataloged once and multiple institutions have complete control over their own Instances of the Work, de-duplicating cataloging efforts while supporting real-time resource sharing between the Instances. Control, access, and discovery of records in the proposed MARCR Redis Datastore are provided through lightweight HTML5 responsive apps built with Django, Bootstrap, and KnockoutJS that also integrate with both open-source and commercial discovery products.<br />
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Redis offers many advantages for a shared MARCR bibliographic datastore, such as speed, scalability, and ease-of-deployment. Especially it can support multiple cloud models that benefits institution of various size and capital. We will demonstrate a MVP (Minimal Viable Product) iteration of this MARCR Datastore using the transformed MARC 21 records from Colorado College and the University of Denver into Redis with coordination by Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.<br />
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== Take Your Content and Shove It ==<br />
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* Eric Frierson*, EBSCO Publishing, efrierson@ebscohost.com<br />
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Public services librarians have experimented getting out of the library. For example, the 'embedded librarian' model puts the librarian in class with students, offering help and advice throughout the semester at the point of need. Digital services have also found their way into virtual classrooms by way of links from the course management system (e.g., Blackboard, Moodle) and the occasional embedded search box that serves as a portal into the library's search solution.<br />
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With the release of discovery services and their associated APIs, we can do more. Rather than linking back to the library, we can take our resources and push them into the learning experience, allowing them to escape the library website silo altogether. Imagine a professor being able to search library resources and add items to their course website without ever leaving their CMS, or a student adding items to a folder that shows up in their campus dashboard. What if we could tie the use of library resources to student success in the classroom by leveraging user data from CMS tools? In this session, I will briefly describe how APIs might make these scenarios possible, but then facilitate a discussion on where else we could shove our resources. I hope to initiate a few development projects along these lines.<br />
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[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_talks_proposals&diff=283132013 talks proposals2012-11-09T16:34:58Z<p>Efrierson: /* Take Your Content and Shove It */</p>
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== All Teh Metadatas Re-Revisited ==<br />
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* Esme Cowles, UC San Diego Library, escowles AT ucsd DOT edu<br />
* Matt Critchlow, UC San Diego Library, mcritchlow AT ucsd DOT edu<br />
* Bradley Westbrook, UC San Diego Library, bdwestbrook AT ucsd DOT edu<br />
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Last year Declan Fleming presented ALL TEH METADATAS and reviewed our UC<br />
San Diego Library Digital Asset Management system and RDF data model. You<br />
may be shocked to hear that all that metadata wasn't quite enough to<br />
handle increasingly complex digital library and research data in an<br />
elegant way. Our ad-hoc, 8-year-old data model has also been added to in<br />
inconsistent ways and our librarians and developers have not always been<br />
perfectly in sync in understanding how the data model has evolved over<br />
time.<br />
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In this presentation we'll review our process of locking a team of<br />
librarians and developers in a room to figure out a new data model, from<br />
domain definition through building and testing an OWL ontology. We¹ll also<br />
cover the challenges we ran into, including the review of existing<br />
controlled vocabularies and ontologies, or lack thereof, and the decisions<br />
made to cover the gaps. Finally, we'll discuss how we engaged the digital<br />
library community for feedback and what we have to do next. We all know<br />
that Things Fall Apart, this is our attempt at Doing Better This Time.<br />
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== Modernizing VuFind with Zend Framework 2 ==<br />
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* Demian Katz, Villanova University, demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu<br />
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When setting goals for a new major release of VuFind, use of an existing web framework was an important decision to encourage standardization and avoid reinvention of the wheel. Zend Framework 2 was selected as providing the best balance between the cutting-edge (ZF2 was released in 2012) and stability (ZF1 has a long history and many adopters). This talk will examine some of the architecture and features of the new framework and discuss how it has been used to improve the VuFind project.<br />
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== Did You Really Say That Out Loud? Tools and Techniques for Safe Public WiFi Computing ==<br />
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* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]], LYRASIS, Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org<br />
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Public WiFi networks, even those that have passwords, are nothing more that an old-time [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony) party line]: what every you say can be easily heard by anyone nearby. <br />
Remember [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep Firesheep]? <br />
It was an extension to Firefox that demonstrated how easy it was to snag session cookies and impersonate someone else.<br />
So what are you sending out over the airwaves, and what techniques are available to prevent eavesdropping?<br />
This talk will demonstrate tools and techniques for desktop and mobile operating systems that you should be using right now -- right here at Code4Lib -- to protect your data and your network activity.<br />
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== Drupal 8 Preview — Symfony and Twig ==<br />
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* [[User:Highermath|Cary Gordon]], The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com<br />
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Drupal is a great platform for building web applications. Last year, the core developers decided to adopt the Symfony PHP framework, because it would lay the groundwork for the modernization (and de-PHP4ification) of the Drupal codebase. As I write this, the Symfony ClassLoader and HttpFoundation libraries are committed to Drupal core, with more elements likely before Drupal 8 code freeze.<br />
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It seems almost certain that the Twig templating engine will supplant PHPtemplate as the core Drupal template engine. Twig is a powerful, secure theme building tool that removes PHP from the templating system, the result being a very concise and powerful theme layer.<br />
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Symfony and Twig have a common creator, Fabien Potencier, who's overall goal is to rid the world of the excesses of PHP 4.<br />
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== Neat! But How Do We Do It? - The Real-world Problem of Digitizing Complex Corporate Digital Objects ==<br />
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* Matthew Mariner, University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library, matthew.mariner@ucdenver.edu<br />
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Isn't it neat when you discover that you are the steward of dozens of Sanborn Fire Instance Maps, hundreds of issues of a city directory, and thousands of photographs of persons in either aforementioned medium? And it's even cooler when you decide, "Let's digitize these together and make them one big awesome project to support public urban history"? Unfortunately it's a far more difficult process than one imagines at inception and, sadly, doesn't always come to fruition. My goal here is to discuss the technological (and philosophical) problems librarians and archivists face when trying to create ultra-rich complex corporate digital projects, or, rather, projects consisting of at least three facets interrelated by theme. I intend to address these problems by suggesting management solutions, web workarounds, and, perhaps, a philosophy that might help in determining whether to even move forward or not. Expect a few case studies of "grand ideas crushed by technological limitations" and "projects on the right track" to follow. <br />
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== ResCarta Tools building a standard format for audio archiving, discovery and display ==<br />
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* [[User:sarney|John Sarnowski]], The ResCarta Foundation, john.sarnowski@rescarta.org<br />
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The free ResCarta Toolkit has been used by libraries and archives around the world to host city directories, newspapers, and historic photographs and by aerospace companies to search and find millions of engineering documents. Now the ResCarta team has released audio additions to the toolkit. <br />
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Create full text searchable oral histories, news stories, interviews. or build an archive of lectures; all done to Library of Congress standards. The included transcription editor allows for accurate correction of the data conversion tool’s output. Build true archives of text, photos and audio. A single audio file carries the embedded Axml metadata, transcription, and word location information. Checks with the FADGI BWF Metaedit.<br />
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ResCarta-Web presents your audio to IE, Chome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera browsers with full playback and word search capability. Display format is OGG!! <br />
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You have to see this tool in action. Twenty minutes from an audio file to transcribed, text-searchable website. Be there or be L seven (Yeah, I’m that old) <br />
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== Format Designation in MARC Records: A Trip Down the Rabbit-Hole ==<br />
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* Michael Doran, University of Texas at Arlington, doran@uta.edu<br />
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This presentation will use a seemingly simple data point, the "format" of the item being described, to illustrate some of the complexities and challenges inherent in the parsing of MARC records. I will talk about abstract vs. concrete forms; format designation in the Leader, 006, 007, and 008 fixed fields as well as the 245 and 300 variable fields; pseudo-formats; what is mandatory vs. optional in respect to format designation in cataloging practice; and the differences between cataloging theory and practice as observed via format-related data mining of a mid-size academic library collection. <br />
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I understand that most of us go to code4lib to hear about the latest sexy technologies. While MARC isn't sexy, many of the new tools being discussed still need to be populated with data gleaned from MARC records. MARC format designation has ramifications for search and retrieval, limits, and facets, both in the ILS and further downstream in next generation OPACs and web-scale discovery tools. Even veteran library coders will learn something from this session. <br />
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== Touch Kiosk 2: Piezoelectric Boogaloo ==<br />
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* Andreas Orphanides, North Carolina State University Libraries, akorphan@ncsu.edu<br />
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At the NCSU Libraries, we provide realtime access to information on library spaces and services through an interactive touchscreen kiosk in our Learning Commons. In the summer of 2012, two years after its initial deployment, I redeveloped the kiosk application from the ground up, with an entirely new codebase and a completely redesigned user interface. The changes I implemented were designed to remedy previously identified shortcomings in the code and the interface design [1], and to enhance overall stability and performance of the application.<br />
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In this presentation I will outline my revision process, highlighting the lessons I learned and the practices I implemented in the course of redevelopment. I will highlight the key features of the HTML/Javascript codebase that allow for increased stability, flexibility, and ease of maintenance; and identify the changes to the user interface that resulted from the usability findings I uncovered in my previous research. Finally, I will compare the usage patterns of the new interface to the analysis of the previous implementation to examine the practical effect of the implemented changes.<br />
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I will also provide access to a genericized version of the interface code for others to build their own implementations of similar kiosk applications.<br />
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[1] http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5832<br />
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== Wayfinding in a Cloud: Location Service for libraries ==<br />
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* Petteri Kivimäki, The National Library of Finland, petteri.kivimaki@helsinki.fi<br />
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Searching for books in large libraries can be a difficult task for a novice library user. This paper presents The Location Service, software as a service (SaaS) wayfinding application developed and managed by The National Library of Finland, which is targeted for all the libraries. The service provides additional information and map-based guidance to books and collections by showing their location on a map, and it can be integrated with any library management system, as the integration happens by adding a link to the service in the search interface. The service is being developed continuously based on the feedback received from the users.<br />
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The service has two user interfaces: One for the customers and one for the library staff for managing the information related to the locations. The UI for the customers is fully customizable by the libraries, and the customization is done via template files by using the following techniques: HTML, CSS, and Javascript/jQuery. The service supports multiple languages, and the libraries have a full control of the languages, which they want to support in their environment.<br />
<br />
The service is written in Java and it uses Spring and Hibernate frameworks. The data is stored in PostgreSQL database, which is shared by all the libraries. They do not possess a direct access to the database, but the service offers an interface, which makes it possible to retrieve XML data over HTTP. Modification of the data via admin UI, however, is restricted, and access on the other libraries’ data is blocked.<br />
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== Empowering Collection Owners with Automated Bulk Ingest Tools for DSpace ==<br />
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* Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu<br />
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The Georgetown University Library has developed a number of applications to expedite the process of ingesting content into DSpace.<br />
* Automatically inventory a collection of documents or images to be uploaded<br />
* Generate a spreadsheet for metadata capture based on the inventory<br />
* Generate item-level ingest folders, contents files and dublin core metadata for the items to be ingested<br />
* Validate the contents of ingest folders prior to initiating the ingest to DSpace<br />
* Present users with a simple, web-based form to initiate the batch ingest process<br />
<br />
The applications have eliminated a number of error-prone steps from the ingest workflow and have significantly reduced a number of tedious data editing steps. These applications have empowered content experts to be in charge of their own collections. <br />
<br />
In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.<br />
<br />
== Quality Assurance Reports for DSpace Collections ==<br />
<br />
* Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu<br />
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The Georgetown University Library has developed a collection of quality assurance reports to improve the consistency of the metadata in our DSpace collections. The report infrastructure permits the creation of query snippets to test for possible consistency errors within the repository such as items missing thumbnails, items with multiple thumbnails, items missing a creation date, items containing improperly formatted dates, items without duplicated metadata fields, items recently added items across the repository, a community or a collection<br />
<br />
These reports have served to prioritize programmatic data cleanup tasks and manual data cleanup tasks. The reports have served as a progress tracker for data cleanup work and will provide on-going monitoring of the metadata consistency of the repository.<br />
<br />
In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.<br />
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== A Hybrid Solution for Improving Single Sign-On to a Proxy Service with Squid and EZproxy through Shibboleth and ExLibris’ Aleph X-Server ==<br />
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* Alexander Jerabek, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, jerabek.alexander_j@uqam.ca<br />
* Minh-Quang Nguyen, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, nguyen.minh-quang@uqam.ca<br />
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In this talk, we will describe how we developed and implemented a hybrid solution for improving single sign-on in conjunction with the library’s proxy service. This hybrid solution consists of integrating the disparate elements of EZproxy, the Squid workflow, Shibboleth, and the Aleph X-Server. We will report how this new integrated service improves the user experience. To our knowledge, this new service is unique and has not been implemented anywhere else. We will also present some statistics after approximately one year in production.<br />
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See article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7470<br />
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== HTML5 Video Now! ==<br />
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* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jnronall@ncsu.edu<br />
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Can you use HTML5 video now? Yes.<br />
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I'll show you how to get started using HTML5 video, including gotchas, tips, and tricks. Beyond the basics we'll see the power of having video integrated into HTML and the browser. Finally, we'll look at examples that push the limits and show the exciting future of video on the Web.<br />
<br />
My experience comes from technical development of an oral history video clips project. I developed the technical aspects of the project, including video processing, server configuration, development of a public site, creation of an administrative interface, and video engagement analytics. Major portions of this work have been open sourced under an MIT license.<br />
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== Hybrid Archival Collections Using Blacklight and Hydra ==<br />
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* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, awead@rockhall.org<br />
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At the Library and Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we use available tools such as Archivists' Toolkit to create EAD finding aids of our collections. However, managing digital content created from these materials and the born-digital content that is also part of these collections represents a significant challenge. In my presentation, I will discuss how we solve the problem of our hybrid collections by using Hydra as a digital asset manager and Blacklight as a unified presentation and discovery interface for all our materials.<br />
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Our strategy centers around indexing ead xml into Solr as multiple documents: one for each collection, and one for every series, sub-series and item contained within a collection. For discovery, we use this strategy to leverage item-level searching of archival collections alongside our traditional library content. For digital collections, we use this same technique to represent a finding aid in Hydra as a set of linked objects using RDF. New digital items are then linked to these parent objects at the collection and series level. Once this is done, the items can be exported back out to the Blacklight solr index and the digital content appears along with the rest of the items in the collection.<br />
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== Making the Web Accessible through Solid Design ==<br />
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* [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia Ng]] from Ryerson University Library & Archives<br />
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In libraries, we are always trying our best to be accessible to everyone and we make every effort to do so physically, but what about our websites? Web designers are great at talking about the user experience and how to improve it, but what sometimes gets overlooked is how to make a site more accessible and meet accessibility guidelines. While guidelines are necessary to cover a minimum standard, web accessibility should come from good web design without ‘sacrificing’ features. While it's difficult to make a website fully accessible to everyone, there are easy, practical ways to make a site as accessible as possible.<br />
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While the focus will be on websites and meeting the Web Accessibility Guidelines WCAG, the presentation will also touch on how to make custom web interfaces accessible.<br />
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== Getting People to What They Need Fast! A Wayfinding Tool to Locate Books & Much More ==<br />
<br />
* Steven Marsden, Ryerson University Library & Archives, steven dot marsden at ryerson dot ca<br />
* [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia Ng]], Ryerson University Library & Archives<br />
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Having a bewildered, lost user in the building or stacks is a common occurrence, but we can help our users find their way through enhanced maps and floor plans. While not a new concept, these maps are integrated into the user’s flow of information without having to load a special app. The map not only highlights the location, but also provides all the related information with a link back to the detailed item view. During the first stage of the project, it has only be implemented for books (and other physical items), but the 'RULA Finder' is built to help users find just about anything and everything in the library including study rooms, computer labs, and staff. With a simple to use admin interface, it makes it easy for everyone, staff and users. <br />
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The application is written in PHP with data stored in a MySQL database. The end-user interface involves jQuery, JSON, and the library's discovery layer (Summon) API.<br />
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The presentation will not only cover the technical aspects, but also the implementation and usability findings.<br />
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== De-sucking the Library User Experience ==<br />
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* Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University, j-prevost {AT} northwestern [DOT] edu<br />
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Have you ever thought that library vendors purposely create the worst possible user experience they can imagine because they just hate users? Have you ever thought that your own library website feels like it was created by committee rather than for users because, well, it was? I’ll talk about how we used vendor supplied APIs to our ILS and Discovery tool to create an experience for our users that sucks at least a little bit less.<br />
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The talk will provide specific examples of how inefficient or confusing vendor supplied solutions are from a user perspective along with our specific streamlined solutions to the same problems. Code examples will be minimal as the focus will be on improving user experience rather than any one code solution of doing that. Examples may include the seemingly simple tasks of renewing a book or requesting an item from another campus library.<br />
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== Solr Testing Is Easy with Rspec-Solr Gem ==<br />
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* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University, ndushay AT stanford DOT edu<br />
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How do you know if <br />
<br />
* your idea for "left anchoring" searches actually works?<br />
* your field analysis for LC call numbers accommodates a suffix between the first and second cutter without breaking the rest of LC call number parsing?<br />
* tweaking Solr configs to improve, say, Chinese searching, won't break Turkish and Cyrillic?<br />
* changes to your solrconfig file accomplish what you wanted without breaking anything else?<br />
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Avoid the whole app stack when writing Solr acceptance/relevancy/regression tests! Forget cucumber and capybara. This gem lets you easily (only 4 short files needed!) write tests like this, passing arbitrary parameters to Solr:<br />
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it "unstemmed author name Zare should precede stemmed variants" do<br />
resp = solr_response(author_search_args('Zare').merge({'fl'=>'id,author_person_display', 'facet'=>false}))<br />
resp.should include("author_person_display" => /\bZare\W/).in_each_of_first(3).documents<br />
resp.should_not include("author_person_display" => /Zaring/).in_each_of_first(20).documents<br />
end<br />
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it "Cyrillic searching should work: Восемьсoт семьдесят один день" do<br />
resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'Восемьсoт семьдесят один день'})<br />
resp.should include("9091779")<br />
end<br />
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it "q of 'String quartets Parts' and variants should be plausible " do<br />
resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'String quartets Parts'})<br />
resp.should have_at_least(2000).documents<br />
resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'(String quartets Parts)'}))<br />
resp.should have_more_results_than(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'"String quartets Parts"'}))<br />
end<br />
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it "Traditional Chinese chars 三國誌 should get the same results as simplified chars 三国志" do<br />
resp = solr_response({'q'=>'三國誌', 'fl'=>'id', 'facet'=>false}) <br />
resp.should have_at_least(240).documents<br />
resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'三国志'})) <br />
end<br />
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See<br />
http://rubydoc.info/github/sul-dlss/rspec-solr/frames<br />
https://github.com/sul-dlss/rspec-solr<br />
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and our production relevancy/acceptance/regression tests slowly migrating from cucumber to:<br />
https://github.com/sul-dlss/sw_index_tests<br />
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== Northwestern's Digital Image Library ==<br />
<br />
*Mike Stroming, Northwestern University Library, m-stroming AT northwestern DOT edu<br />
*Edgar Garcia, Northwestern University Library, edgar-garcia AT northwestern DOT edu<br />
<br />
At Northwestern University Library, we are about to release a beta version of our Digital Image Library (DIL). DIL is an implementation of the Hydra technology that provides a Fedora repository solution for discovery of and access to over 100,000 images for staff, students, and scholars. Some important features are:<br />
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*Build custom collection of images using drag-and-drop<br />
*Re-order images within a collection using drag-and-drop<br />
*Nest collections within other collections<br />
*Create details/crops of images<br />
*Zoom, rotate images<br />
*Upload personal images<br />
*Retrieve your own uploads and details from a collection<br />
*Export a collection to a PowerPoint presentation<br />
*Create a group of users and authorize access to your images<br />
*Batch edit image metadata<br />
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Our presentation will include a demo, explanation of the architecture, and a discussion of the benefits of being a part of the Hydra open-source community.<br />
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== Two standards in a software (to say nothing of Normarc) ==<br />
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*Zeno Tajoli, CINECA (Italy), z DOT tajoli AT cineca DOT it<br />
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With this presentation I want to show how ILS Koha handles the support of three differnt MARC dialects:<br />
MARC21, Unimarc and Normarc. The main points of the presentation:<br />
<br />
*Three MARC at MySQL level<br />
*Three MARC at API level<br />
*Three MARC at display<br />
*Can I add a new format ?<br />
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== Future Friendly Web Design for Libraries ==<br />
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*[[User:michaelschofield|Michael Schofield]], Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center, mschofied[dot]nova[dot]edu<br />
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Libraries on the web are afterthoughts. Often their design is stymied on one hand by red tape imposed by the larger institution and on the other by an overload of too democratic input from colleagues. Slashed budgets / staff stretched too thin foul-up the R-word (that'd be "redesign") - but things are getting pretty strange. Notions about the Web (and where it can be accessed) are changing. <br />
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So libraries can only avoid refabbing their fixed-width desktop and jQuery Mobile m-dot websites for so long until desktop users evaporate and demand from patrons with web-ready refrigerators becomes deafening. Just when we have largely hopped on the bandwagon and gotten enthusiastic about being online, our users expect a library's site to look and perform great on everything. <br />
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Our presence on the web should be built to weather ever-increasing device complexity. To meet users at their point of need, libraries must start thinking Future Friendly.<br />
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This overview rehashes the approach and philosophy of library web design, re-orienting it for maximum accessibility and maximum efficiency of design. While just 20 minutes, we'll mull over techniques like mobile-first responsive web design, modular CSS, browser feature detection for progressive enhancement, and lots of nifty tricks.<br />
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==BYU's discovery layer service aggregator==<br />
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*Curtis Thacker, Brigham Young University, curtis.thacker AT byu DOT edu<br />
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It is clear that libraries will continue to experience rapid change based on the speed of technology. To acknowledge this new reality and to provide rapid response to shifting end user paradigms BYU has developed a custom service aggregator. At first our vendors looked at us a bit funny; however, in the last year they have been astonished with the fluid implementation of new services – here’s the short list:<br />
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*filmfinder - a tool for browsing and searching films<br />
*A custom book recommender service based on checkout data<br />
*Integrated library services like personell, library hours, study room scheduler and database finder through a custom adwords system.<br />
*A very geeky and powerful utility used for converting marc XML into primo compliant xml.<br />
*Embedded floormaps<br />
*A responsive web design<br />
*Bing did-you-mean<br />
*And many more.<br />
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I will demo the system, review the archtecture and talk about future plans.<br />
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==The Avalon Media System: A Next Generation Hydra Head For Audio and Video Delivery==<br />
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* Michael Klein, Senior Software Developer, Northwestern University LIbrary, michael.klein AT northwestern DOT edu<br />
* Nathan Rogers, Programmer/Analyst, Indiana University, rogersna AT indiana DOT edu<br />
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Based on the success of the [http://www.dml.indiana.edu/ Variations] digital music platform, Indiana University and Northwestern University have developed a next generation educational tool for delivering multimedia resources to the classroom. The Avalon Media System (formerly Variations on Video) supports the ingest, media processing, management, and access-controlled delivery of library-managed video and audio collections. To do so, the system draws on several existing, mature, open source technologies:<br />
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* The ingest, search, and discovery functionality of the Hydra framework<br />
* The powerful multimedia workflow management features of Opencast Matterhorn<br />
* The flexible Engage audio/video player<br />
* The streaming capabilities of both Red5 Media Server (open source) and Adobe Flash Media Server (proprietary)<br />
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Extensive customization options are built into the framework for tailoring the application to the needs of a specific institution.<br />
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Our goal is to create an open platform that can be used by other institutions to serve the needs of the academic community. Release 1 is planned for a late February launch with future versions released every couple of months following. For more information visit http://avalonmediasystem.org/ and https://github.com/variations-on-video/hydrant.<br />
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== The DH Curation Guide: Building a Community Resource == <br />
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*Robin Davis, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, robdavis AT jjay.cuny.edu <br />
*James Little, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, little9 AT illinois.edu <br />
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Data curation for the digital humanities is an emerging area of research and practice. The DH Curation Guide, launched in July 2012, is an educational resource that addresses aspects of humanities data curation in a series of expert-written articles. Each provides a succinct introduction to a topic with annotated lists of useful tools, projects, standards, and good examples of data curation done right. The DH Curation Guide is intended to be a go-to resource for data curation practitioners and learners in libraries, archives, museums, and academic institutions. <br />
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Because it's a growing field, we designed the DH Curation Guide to be a community-driven, living document. We developed a granular commenting system that encourages data curation community members to contribute remarks on articles, article sections, and article paragraphs. Moreover, we built in a way for readers to contribute and annotate resources for other data curation practitioners. <br />
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This talk will address how the DH Curation Guide is currently used and will include a sneak peek at the articles that are in store for the Guide’s future. We will talk about the difficulties and successes of launching a site that encourages community. We are all builders here, so we will also walk through developing the granular commenting/annotation system and the XSLT-powered publication workflow. <br />
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== Solr Update == <br />
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*Erik Hatcher, LucidWorks, erik.hatcher AT lucidworks.com <br />
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Solr is continually improving. Solr 4 was recently released, bringing dramatic changes in the underlying Lucene library and Solr-level features. It's tough for us all to keep up with the various versions and capabilities.<br />
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This talk will blaze through the highlights of new features and improvements in Solr 4 (and up). Topics will include: SolrCloud, direct spell checking, surround query parser, and many other features. We will focus on the features library coders really need to know about.<br />
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== Reports for the People == <br />
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*Kara Young, Keene State College, NH, kyoung1 at keene.edu<br />
*Dana Clark, Keene State College, NH, dclark5 at keene.edu<br />
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Libraries are increasingly being called upon to provide information on how our programs and services are moving our institutional strategic goals forward. In support of College and departmental Information Literacy learning outcomes, Mason Library Systems at Keene State College developed an assessment database to record and report assessment activities by Library faculty. Frustrated by the lack of freely available options for intuitively recording, accounting for, and outputting useful reports on instructional activities, Librarians requested a tool to make capturing and reporting activities (and their lives) easier. Library Systems was able to respond to this need by working with librarians to identify what information is necessary to capture, where other assessment tools had fallen short, and ultimately by developing an application that supports current reporting imperatives while providing flexibility for future changes.<br />
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The result of our efforts was an in-house browser interfaced Assessment Database to improve the process of data collection and analysis. The application is written in PHP, data stored in a MySQL database, and presented via browser making extensive use of JQuery and JQuery plug-ins for data collection, manipulation, and presentation. <br />
The presentation will outline the process undertaken to build a successful collaboration with Library faculty from conception to implementation, as well as the technical aspects of our trial-and-error approach. Plus: cool charts and graphs!<br />
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== Network Analyses of Library Catalog Data ==<br />
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* Kirk Hess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, kirkhess AT illinois.edu<br />
* Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, green19 AT illinois.edu <br />
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Library collections are all too often like icebergs: The amount exposed on the surface is only a fraction of the actual amount of content, and we’d like to recommend relevant items from deep within the catalog to users. With the assistance of an XSEDE Allocation grant (http://xsede.org), we’ve used R to reconstitute anonymous circulation data from the University of Illinois’s library catalog into separate user transactions. The transaction data is incorporated into subject analyses that use XSEDE supercomputing resources to generate predictive network analyses and visualizations of subject areas searched by library users using Gephi (https://gephi.org/). The test data set for developing the subject analyses consisted of approximately 38,000 items from the Literatures and Languages Library that contained 110,000 headings and 130,620 transactions. We’re currently working on developing a recommender system within VuFind to display the results of these analyses.<br />
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== Pitfall! Working with Legacy Born Digital Materials in Special Collections ==<br />
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* Donald Mennerich, The New York Public Library, don.mennerich AT gmail.com<br />
* Mark A. Matienzo, Yale University Library, mark AT matienzo.org<br />
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Archives and special collections are being faced with a growing abundance of born digital material, as well as an abundance of many promising tools for managing them. However, one must consider the potential problems that can arise when approaching a collection containing legacy materials (from roughly the pre-internet era). Many of the tried and true, "best of breed" tools for digital preservation don't always work as they do for more recent materials, requiring a fair amount of ingenuity and use of "word of mouth tradecraft and knowledge exchanged through serendipitous contacts, backchannel conversations, and beer" (Kirschenbaum, "Breaking <code>badflag</code>").<br />
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Our presentation will focus on some of the strange problems encountered and creative solutions devised by two digital archivists in the course of preserving, processing, and providing access to collections at their institutions. We'll be placing particular particular emphasis of the pitfalls and crocodiles we've learned to swing over safely, while collecting treasure in the process. We'll address working with CP/M disks in collections of authors' papers, reconstructing a multipart hard drive backup spread across floppy disks, and more. <br />
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== Project <s>foobar</s> FUBAR ==<br />
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* Becky Yoose, Grinnell College, yoosebec AT grinnell DOT edu<br />
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Be it mandated from Those In A Higher Pay Grade Than You or self-inflicted, many of us deal with managing major library-related technology projects [1]. It’s common nowadays to manage multiple technology projects, and generally external and internal issues can be planned for to minimize project timeline shifts and quality of deliverables. Life, however, has other plans for you, and all your major library technology infrastructure projects pile on top of each other at the same time. How do you and your staff survive a train wreck of technology projects and produce deliverables to project stakeholders without having to go into the library IT version of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program?<br />
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This session covers my experience with the collision of three major library technology projects - including a new institutional repository and an integrated library system migration - and how we dealt with external and internal factors, implemented damage control, and overall lessening the damage from the epic crash. You might laugh, you might cry, you will probably have flashbacks from previous projects, but you will come out of this session with a set of tools to use when you’re dealing with managing mission-critical projects.<br />
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[1] Past code4lib talks have covered specific project management strategies, such as Agile, for application development. I will be focusing on and discussing general project management practices in relation to various library technology projects, many of which these strategies include in their own structures.<br />
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== Implementing RFID in an Academic Library == <br />
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* Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University, sbacon AT coastal DOT edu<br />
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Coastal Carolina University’s Kimbel Library recently implemented RFID to increase security, provide better inventory control over library materials and enable do-it-yourself patron services such as self checkout. <br />
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I’ll give a quick overview of RFID and the components involved and then will talk about how our library utilized the technology. It takes a lot of research, time, money and not too little resourcefulness to make your library RFID-ready. I’ll show how we developed our project timeline, how we assessed and evaluated vendors and how we navigated the bid process. I’ll also talk about hardware and software installation, configuration and troubleshooting and will discuss our book and media collection encoding process. <br />
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We encountered myriad issues with our vendor, the hardware and the software. Would we do it all over again? Should your library consider RFID? Caveats abound...<br />
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== Coding an Academic Library Intranet in Drupal: Now We're Getting Organizized... ==<br />
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* Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University, sbacon AT coastal DOT edu<br />
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The Kimbel Library Intranet is coded in Drupal 7, and was created to increase staff communication and store documentation. This presentation will contain an overview of our intranet project, including the modules we used, implementation issues, and possible directions in future development phases. I won’t forget to talk about the slew of tasty development issues we faced, including dealing with our university IT department, user buy-in, site navigation, user roles, project management, training and mobile modules (or the lack thereof). And some other fun (mostly) true anecdotes will surely be shared. <br />
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The main functions of Phase I of this project were to increase communication across departments and committees, facilitate project management and revise the library's shared drive. Another important function of this first phase was to host mission-critical documentation such as strategic goals, policies and procedures. Phase II of this project will focus on porting employee tasks into the centralized intranet environment. This development phase, which aims to replicate and automate the bulk of staff workflows within a content management system, will be a huge undertaking. <br />
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We chose Drupal as our intranet platform because of its extensibility, flexibility and community support. We are also moving our entire library web presence to Drupal in 2013 and will be soliciting any advice on which modules to use/avoid and which third-party services to wrangle into the Drupal environment. Should we use Drupal as the back-end to our entire Web presence? Why or why not?<br />
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== Hands off! Best Practices and Top Ten Lists for Code Handoffs ==<br />
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* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University Library, ndushay@stanford.edu<br />
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu<br />
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Transition points in who is the primary developer on an actively developing code base can be a source of frustration for everyone involved. We've tried to minimize that pain point as much as possible through the use of agile methods like test driven development, continuous integration, and modular design. Has optimizing for developer happiness brought us happiness? What's worked, what hasn't, and what's worth adopting? How do you keep your project in a state where you can easily hand it off? <br />
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== How to be an effective evangelist for your open source project ==<br />
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* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu<br />
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The difference between an open source software project that gets new adopters and new contributing community members (which is to say, a project that goes on existing for any length of time) and a project that doesn't, often isn't a question of superior design or technology. It's more often a question of whether the advocates for the project can convince institutional leaders AND front line developers that a project is stable and trustworthy. What are successful strategies for attracting development partners? I'll try to answer that and talk about what we could do as a community to make collaboration easier. <br />
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== Thoughts from an open source vendor - What makes a "good" vendor in a meritocracy? ==<br />
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* Matt Zumwalt, Data Curation Experts / MediaShelf / Hydra Project, matt@curationexperts.com<br />
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What is the role of vendors in open source? What should be the position of vendors in a meritocracy? What are the avenues for encouraging great vendors who contribute to open source communities in valuable ways? How you answer these questions has a huge impact on a community, and in order to formulate strong answers, you need to be well informed. Let’s glimpse at the business practicalities of this situation, beginning with 1) an overview of the viable profit models for open-source software, 2) some of the realities of vendor involvement in open source, and 3) an account of the ins & outs of compensation & equity structures within for-profit corporations.<br />
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The topics of power & influence, fairness, community participation, software quality, employment and personal profit are fair game, along with software licensing, support, sponsorship, closed source software and the role of sales people.<br />
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This presentation will draw on personal experience from the past seven years spent bootstrapping and running MediaShelf, a small but prolific for-profit consulting company that focuses entirely on open source digital repository software. MediaShelf has played an active role in creating the Hydra Framework and continuously contributes to maintenance of Fedora and Blacklight. Those contributions have been funded through consulting contracts for authoring & implementing open source software on behalf of organizations around the world.<br />
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==Occam’s Reader: A system that allows the sharing of eBooks via Interlibrary Loan==<br />
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*Ryan Litsey, Texas Tech University, Ryan DOT Litsey AT ttu.edu<br />
*Kenny Ketner, Texas Tech University, Kenny DOT Ketner AT ttu.edu<br />
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Occam’s Reader is a software platform that allows the transfer and sharing of electronic books between libraries via existing interlibrary loan software. Occam’s Reader allows libraries to meet the growing need to be able to share our electronic resources. In the ever-increasing digital world, many of our collection development plans now include eBook platforms. The problem with eBooks, however, is that they are resources that are locked into the home library. With Occam’s Reader we can continue the centuries-old tradition of resource sharing and also keep up with the changing digital landscape. <br />
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== Using Puppet for configuration management when no two servers look alike ==<br />
* Eugene Vilensky, Senior Systems Administrator, Northwestern University Library, evilensky northwestern edu<br />
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Configuration management is hot because it allows one to scale to thousands of machines, all of which look alike, and tightly manage changes across the nodes. Infrastructure as code, implement all changes programmatically, yadda yadda yadda.<br />
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Unfortunately, servers which have gone unmanaged for a long time do not look very similar to each other. Variables come in many forms, usually because of some or all of the following: Who installed the server, where it was installed, where the image was sourced from, when it was installed, where additional packages were sourced, and what kind of software was hosted on it.<br />
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Bringing such machines into your configuration management platform is no harder and no easier than some or all of the following options options: 1) blow such machines away and start from scratch, migrate your data. 2) Find the lowest common baseline between the current state and the ideal state and start the work there. 3) implement new features/services on existing unmanaged machines but manage the new features/services.<br />
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I will describe our experiences at the library for all three options using the Puppet open-source tool on Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.<br />
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== REST <b>IS</b> Your Mobile Strategy ==<br />
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* Richard Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago, richwolf@uic.edu<br />
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Mobile is the new hotness ... and you can't be one of the cool kids unless you've got your own mobile app ... but the road to mobility is daunting. I'll argue that it's actually easier than it seems ... and that the simplest way to mobility is to bring your data to the party, create a REST API around the data, tell developers about your API, and then let the magic happen. To make my argument concrete, I'll show (lord help me!) how to go from an interesting REST API to a fun iOS tool for librarians and the general public in twenty minutes.<br />
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== ARCHITECTING ScholarSphere: How We Built a Repository App That Doesn't Feel Like Yet Another Janky Old Repository App ==<br />
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* Dan Coughlin, Penn State University, danny@psu.edu<br />
* Mike Giarlo, Penn State University, michael@psu.edu<br />
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ScholarSphere is a web application that allows the Penn State research community to deposit, share, and manage its scholarly works. It is also, as some of our users and our peers have observed, a repository app that feels much more like Google Docs or GitHub than earlier-generation repository applications. ScholarSphere is built upon the Hydra framework (Fedora Commons, Solr, Blacklight, Ruby on Rails), MySQL, Redis, Resque, FITS, ImageMagick, jQuery, Bootstrap, and FontAwesome. We'll talk about techniques we used to:<br />
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* eliminate Fedora-isms in the application<br />
* model and expose RDF metadata in ways that users find unobtrusive<br />
* manage permissions via a UI widget that doesn't stab you in the face<br />
* harvest and connect controlled vocabularies (such as LCSH) to forms<br />
* make URIs cool<br />
* keep the app snappy without venturing into the architectural labyrinth of YAGNI<br />
* build and queue background jobs<br />
* expose social features and populate activity streams<br />
* tie checksum verification, characterization, and version control to the UI<br />
* let users upload and edit multiple files at once<br />
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The application will be demonstrated; code will be shown; and we solemnly commit to showing ABSOLUTELY NO XML.<br />
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==Coding with Mittens==<br />
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*Jim LeFager, DePaul University Library jlefager@depaul.edu<br />
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Working in an environment where developers have restricted access to servers and development areas, or where you are primarily working in multiple hosted systems with limited access, can be a challenge when you are attempting to incorporate any new functionality or improve an existing one. Hosted web services present a benefit so that staff time is not dedicated to server maintenance and development, but customization can be difficult and at times impossible. In many cases, incorporating any current API functionality requires additional work besides the original development work which can be frustrating and inefficient. The result can be a Frankenstein monster of web services that is confusing to the user and difficult to navigate. <br />
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This talk will focus on some effective best practices, and maybe not so great but necessary practices that we have adopted to develop and improve our user’s experience using javascript/jQuery and CSS to manipulate our hosted environments. This will include a review of available tools that allow collaborative development in the cloud, as well as examples of jQuery methods that have allowed us to take additional control of these hosted environments as well as track them using Google Analytics. Included will be examples from Springshare Campus Guides, CONTENTdm and other hosted web spaces that have been ‘hacked’ to improve the UI. <br />
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== Hacking the DPLA ==<br />
* Nate Hill, Chattanooga Public Library, nathanielhill AT gmail.com<br />
* Sam Klein, Wikipedia, metasj AT gmail.com<br />
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The Digital Public Library of America is a growing open-source platform to support digital libraries and archives of all kinds. DPLA-alpha is available for testing, with data from six initial Hubs. New APIs and data feeds are in development, with the next release scheduled for April. <br />
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Come learn what we are doing, how to contribute or hack the DPLA roadmap, and how you (or your favorite institution) can draw from and publish through it. Larger institutions can join as a (content or service) hub, helping to aggregate and share metadata and services from across their {region, field, archive-type}. We will discuss current challenges and possibilities (UI and API suggestions wanted!), apps being built on the platform, and related digitization efforts.<br />
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DPLA has a transparent community and planning process; new participants are always welcome. Half the time will be for suggestions and discussion. Please bring proposals, problems, partnerships and possible paradoxes to discuss.<br />
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== Introduction to SilverStripe 3.0 ==<br />
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* Ian Walls, University of Massachusetts Amherst, iwalls AT library DOT umass DOT edu<br />
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SilverStripe is an open source Content Management System/development framework out of New Zealand, written in PHP, with a solid MVC structure. This presentation will cover everything you need to know to get started with SilverStripe, including<br />
* Features (and why you should consider SilverStripe)<br />
* Requirements & Installation<br />
* Model-View-Controller<br />
* Key data types & configuration settings<br />
* Modules<br />
* Where to start with customization<br />
* Community support and participation<br />
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== Citation search in SOLR and second-order operators ==<br />
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* Roman Chyla, Astrophysics Data System, roman.chyla AT (cfa.harvad.edu|gmail.com)<br />
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Citation search is basically about connections (Is the paper read by a friend of mine more important than others? Get me a paper read by somebody who cites many papers/is cited by many papers?), but the implementation of the citation search is surprisingly useful in many other areas.<br />
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I will show 'guts' of the new citation search for astrophysics, it is generic and can be applied recursively to any Lucene query. Some people would call it a second-order operation because it works with the results of the previous (search) function. The talk will see technical details of the special query class, its collectors, how to add a new search operator and how to influence relevance scores. Then you can type with me: friends_of(friends_of(cited_for(keyword:"black holes") AND keyword:"red dwarf"))<br />
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== Managing Segmented Images and Hierarchical Collections with Fedora-Commons and Solr ==<br />
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* David Lacy, Villanova University, david DOT lacy AT villanova.edu<br />
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Many of the resources within our digital library are split into parts -- newspapers, scrapbooks and journals being examples of collections of individual scanned pages. In some cases, groups of pages within a collection, or segments within a particular page, may also represent chapters or articles.<br />
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We recently devised a procedure to extract these "segmented resources" into their own objects within our repository, and index them individually in our Discovery Layer.<br />
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In this talk I will explain how we dissected and organized these newly created resources with an extension to our Fedora Model, and how we make them discoverable through Solr configurations that facilitate browsable hierarchical relationships and field-collapsed results that group items within relevant resources.<br />
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== Google Analytics, Event Tracking and Discovery Tools==<br />
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* Emily Lynema, North Carolina State University Libraries. ejlynema AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
* Adam Constabaris, North Carolina State University Libraries, ajconsta AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
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The NCSU Libraries is using Google Analytics increasingly across its website as a replacement for usage tracking via Urchin. More recently, we have also begun to use the event tracking features in Google Analytics. This has allowed us to gather usage statistics for activities that don’t initiate new requests to the server, such as clicks that hide and show already-loaded content (as in many tabbed interfaces). Aggregating these events together with pageview tracking in Google Analytics presents a more unified picture of patron activity and can help improve design of tools like the library catalog. While assuming a basic understanding of the use of Google Analytics pageview tracking, this presentation will start with an introduction to the event tracking capabilities that may be less widely known. <br />
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We’ll share library catalog usage data pulled from Google Analytics, including information about features that are common across the newest wave of catalog interfaces, such as tabbed content, Google Preview, and shelf browse. We will also cover the approach taken for the technical implementation of this data-intensive JavaScript event tracking.<br />
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As a counterpart, we can demonstrate how we have begun to use Google Analytics event tracking in a proprietary vendor discovery tool (Serials Solutions Summon). While the same technical ideas govern this implementation, we can highlight the differences (read, challenges) inherent in utilizing this type of event tracking in vendor-owned application vs. a locally developed application.<br />
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Along the way, hopefully you’ll learn a little about why you might (or might not) want to use Google Analytics event tracking yourself and see some interesting catalog usage stats.<br />
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== Actions speak louder than words: Analyzing large-scale query logs to improve the research experience ==<br />
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* Raman Chandrasekar, Serials Solutions, Raman DOT Chandrasekar AT serialssolutions DOT com<br />
* Ted Diamond, Serials Solutions, Ted DOT Diamond AT serialssolutions DOT com<br />
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Analyzing anonymized query and click through logs leads to a better understanding of user behaviors and intentions and provides great opportunities to respond to users with an improved search experience. A large-scale provider of SaaS services, Serials Solutions is uniquely positioned to learn from the dataset of queries aggregated from the Summon service generated by millions of users at hundreds of libraries around the world.<br />
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In this session, we will describe our Relevance Metrics Framework and provide examples of insights gained during its development and implementation. We will also cover recent product changes inspired by these insights. Chandra and Ted, from the Summon dev team, will share insights and outcomes from this ongoing process and highlight how analysis of large-scale query logs helps improve the academic research experience.<br />
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== Supporting Gaming in the College Classroom == <br />
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*Megan O'Neill, Albion College, moneill AT albion DOT edu<br />
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Faculty are increasingly interested both in teaching with games and with gamifying their courses. Introducing digital games and game support for faculty through the library makes a lot of sense, but it comes with a thorny set of issues. This talk will discuss our library's initial steps toward creating a digital gamerspace and game support infrastructure in the library, including:<br />
1) The scope and acquisitions decisions that make the most sense for us, and 2) Some difficulties we've discovered in trying to get our collection, physical- , digital- and head-space, and infrastructure up and going.<br />
There will also be an extremely brief overview of WHY we decided to teach with games and to support gamification, what (if anything) to do about mobile gaming, and where games in education might be going.<br />
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== Codecraft ==<br />
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* Devon Smith, OCLC Research, smithde@oclc.org<br />
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We can think of and talk about software development as science, engineering, and craft. In this presentation, I'll talk about the craft aspect of software. From Wikipedia[1]: "In English, to describe something as a craft is to describe it as lying somewhere between an art (which relies on talent and technique) and a science (which relies on knowledge). In this sense, the English word craft is roughly equivalent to the ancient Greek term techne." Of the questions who, what, where, why, when, and how, I will focus on why and how, with a minor in where.<br />
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'''N.B.''': This will be a NON-TECHNICAL talk.<br />
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft#Classification<br />
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== KnowBot: A Tool to Manage Reference and Beyond == <br />
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* Sarah Park, Northwest Missouri State University<br />
* Hong Gyu Han, Northwest Missouri State University<br />
* Lori Mardis, Northwest Missouri State University<br />
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Northwest Missouri State University has developed and used RefPole for collecting and analyzing reference statistics since 2005. RefPole was a tool to answer librarians’ needs to manage reference statistics and knowledge among librarians. It was an analysis tool for the library leaders to make decisions on library operations. RefPole was adequate for the internal use; however, it was developed for local access which keeps the collective reference knowledge from being shared beyond the desktop and from being accessed by students and faculty. <br />
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In 2011, responding to growing internal and external need, the library has developed a web based knowledge base management system, KnowBot, in Ruby on Rail. KnowBot offers public searching, rating, cloud tagging, librarian, and reporting interfaces. With the additional public interfaces, it also extended reference services 24/7. Librarians can record responses to questions with graphics and multimedia. The reporting interface features not only the simple transactional data, but it also exhibits multi-dimensional analytic tool in real time.<br />
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The presenters will demonstrate KnowBot; share the source code; and discuss the use of the knowledge base to answer the organizational and public need.<br />
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== Creating a (mostly) integrated Patron Account with SirsiDynix Symphony and ILLiad ==<br />
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* Emily Lynema, North Carolina State University Libraries, ejlynema AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
* Jason Raitz, North Carolina State University Libraries, jcraitz AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
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IIn 2012, the NCSU Libraries at long last replaced a vendor “my account” tool that had been running unsupported for years. With the opportunity to create something new, one of the initial goals was a user experience that more seamlessly combined ILS data from SirsiDynix Symphony with ILL data from ILLiad. As a Kuali OLE beta partner, the NCSU Libraries is looking at an ILS migration within the next few years, so another goal was to build the interface on top of a standard so it would not have to be re-written as part of the migration. And the icing on the cake was a transition from a local Perl-based authentication system to the newer campus-wide Shibboleth authentication.<br />
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This presentation will start with our design goals for a new user interface, include a demonstration, and describe the simple techniques used to provide a more integrated view of Symphony and ILLiad patron data. The backbone of the actual application is built using Zend’s PHP Framework and integrates eXtensible Catalog’s NCIP Toolkit to reach out to Symphony for patron data. In addition, we can talk about our successes (and difficulties) using jQuery Mobile to create a mobile view using the same underlying code as the web version. As one of our first Shibboleth applications here in the Libraries, this experience also taught us first-hand about some of the challenges of this type of single sign-on.<br />
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== SKOS Name Authority in a DSpace Institutional Repository ==<br />
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* Tom Johnson, Oregon State University, thomas.johnson@oregonstate.edu<br />
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Name ambiguity is widespread in institutional repositories. Searching by author, users are typically greeted by a variety of misspellings and permutations of initials, collision between contributors with similar names, and other problems inherent in uncontrolled (often user-submitted) data. While DSpace has the technical capacity to use controlled names, it relies on outside authority files (from LoC, for example) to do the heavy lifting. For institutional authors, this leaves a major coverage gap and creates namespace pollution on a vast scale (try searching [http://authorities.loc.gov authorities.loc.gov] for "Johnson, John", sometime). <br />
<br />
OSU is solving this problem with an institutionally scoped, low maintenance SKOS/FOAF "name authority file". People in the IR are assigned URIs, names are maintained as skos:prefLabel, altLabel, or hiddenLabel. We've developed a simple Python application allowing staff to update individual "records", and code on the DSpace side to access the dataset over SPARQL. This presentation will walk you through where we are now, limitations we've run into, and possibilities for the future.<br />
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== Meta-Harvesting: Harvesting the Harvesters ==<br />
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* Steven Anderson, Boston Public Library, sanderson AT bpl DOT org<br />
* Eben English, Boston Public Library, eenglish AT bpl DOT org<br />
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The emerging Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la/) has proposed to aggregate digital content for search and discovery from several regional "service hubs" that will provide metadata via an as-yet-unspecified harvest process. As these service hubs are already harvesters of digital content from myriad sources themselves, the potential for "telephone game"-esque data loss and/or transmutation is a significant danger.<br />
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This talk will discuss the experience of Digital Commonwealth (http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/), a statewide digital repository currently in the process of being revamped, refactored, and redesigned by the Boston Public Library using the Hydra Framework. The repository, which aggregates data from over 20 institutions (some of which are themselves aggregators), is also undergoing a massive metadata cleanup effort as records are prepared to be ingested into the DPLA as one of the regional service hubs. Topics will include automated and manual processes for data crosswalking and cleanup, advanced OAI-PMH chops, and the implications of the (at this time still-emerging) metadata standards and APIs being created by the DPLA.<br />
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Every crosswalk, transformation, migration, harvest, or export/ingest of metadata requires informed decision making and precise attention to detail. This talk will provide insight into key decision points and potential quagmires, as well as a discussion of the challenges of dealing with heterogeneous data from a wide variety of institutions.<br />
<br />
== Pay No More Than £3 // DIY Digital Curation ==<br />
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* Chris Fitzpatrick, World Maritime University, cf AT wmu DOT se<br />
<br />
Are you a small library or archive? <br><br />
Do you feel you are being held back by limited technical resources?<br><br />
Tired of waiting around for the Google Books Library people to reply to your emails? <br><br />
<br />
Join the club. Open-source software, hackerspaces, dirt cheap storage, cloud computing, and social media make it possible for any institution to start curating digitally. Today.<br />
This talk will cover some of the guerrilla tactics being employed to drag a small university's large collection into the internet age. <br />
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Topics will include: <br />
*Cheap and effective document scanning methods.<br />
*Valuable resources found at your local hackerspace / makerspace / fablab.<br />
*Metadata enrichment for the not-so-rich and NLP for the people.<br />
*Utilizing social media to crowdsource your collection building.<br />
*How to post-process, OCR, PDF, and ePub your documents using Free software.<br />
*Ways to build out a digital repository with no servers, code, or large 2-year grants required. (ok, maybe some code).<br />
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== IIIF: One Image Delivery API to Rule Them All ==<br />
<br />
* Willy Mene, Stanford University Libraries, wmene AT stanford DOT edu<br />
* Stuart Snydman, Stanford University Libraries, snydman AT stanford DOT edu<br />
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The International Image Interoperability Framework was conceived of by a group of research and national libraries determined to achieve the holy grail of seamless sharing and reuse of images in digital image repositories and applications. By converging on common API’s for image delivery, metadata transmission and search, it is catalyzing the development of a new wave of interoperable image delivery software that will surpass the current crop of image viewers, page turners, and navigation systems, and in so doing give scholars an unprecedented level of consistent and rich access to image-based resources across participating repositories.<br />
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The IIIF Image API (http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api) specifies a web service that returns an image in response to a standard http or https request. The URL can specify the region, size, rotation, quality characteristics and format of the requested image. A URL can also be constructed to request basic technical information about the image to support client applications. The API could be adopted by any image repository or service, and can be used to retrieve static images in response to a properly constructed URL.<br />
<br />
In this presentation we will review version 1 of the IIIF image api and validator, demonstrate applications by daring early adopters, and encourage widespread adoption.<br />
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== Data-Driven Documents: Visualizing library data with D3.js ==<br />
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* Bret Davidson, North Carolina State University Libraries, bret_davidson@ncsu.edu<br />
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Several JavaScript libraries have emerged over the past few years for creating rich, interactive visualizations using web standards. Few are as powerful and flexible as D3.js[1]. D3 stands apart by merging web standards with a rich API and a unique approach to binding data to DOM elements, allowing you to apply data-driven transformations to a document. This emphasis on data over presentation has made D3 very popular; D3 is used by several prominent organizations including the New York Times[2], GOV.UK[3], and Trulia[4].<br />
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Power usually comes at a cost, and D3 makes you pay with a steeper learning curve than many alternatives. In this talk, I will get you over the hump by introducing the core construct of D3, the Data-Join. I will also discuss when you might want to use D3.js, share some examples, and explore some advanced utilities like scales and shapes. I will close with a brief overview of how we are successfully using D3 at NCSU[5] and why investing time in learning D3 might make sense for your library.<br />
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*[1]http://d3js.org/<br />
*[2]http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/24/us/drought-crops.html<br />
*[3]https://www.gov.uk/performance/dashboard<br />
*[4]http://trends.truliablog.com/vis/pricerange-boston/<br />
*[5]http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/spaceassesstool<br />
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== ''n'' Characters in Search of an Author ==<br />
<br />
* Jay Luker, IT Specialist, Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System, jluker@cfa.harvard.edu<br />
<br />
When it comes to author names the disconnect between our metadata and what a user might enter into a search box presents challenges when trying to maximize both precision and recall [0]. When indexing a paper written by "Wäterwheels, A" a goal should be to preserve as much as possible the original information. However, users searching by author name may frequently omit the diaeresis and search for simply, "Waterwheels". The reverse of this scenario is also possible, i.e., your decrepit metadata contains only the ASCII, "Supybot, Zoia", whereas the user enters, "Supybot, Zóia". If recall is your highest priority the simple solution is to always downgrade to ASCII when indexing and querying. However this strategy sacrifices precision, as you will be unable to provide an "exact" search, necessary in cases where "Hacker, J" and "Häcker, J" really are two distinct authors.<br />
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This talk will describe the strategy ADS[1] has devised for addressing common and edge-case problems faced when dealing with author name indexing and searching. I will cover the approach we devised to not only the transliteration issue described above, but also how we deal with author initials vs. full first and/or middle names, authors who have published under different forms of their name, authors who change their names (wha? people get married?!). Our implementation relies on Solr/Lucene[2], but my goal is an 80/20 mix of high- vs. low-level details to keep things both useful and stackgnostic [3].<br />
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*[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall<br />
*[1] http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/<br />
*[2] http://lucene.apache.org/solr/<br />
*[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau<br />
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== But, does it all still work : Testing Drupal with simpletest and casperjs ==<br />
<br />
* David Kinzer - Lead Developer, Jenkins Law Library, dkinzer@jenkinslaw.org<br />
* Chad Nelson - Developer, Jenkins Law Library, cnelson@jenkinslaw.org<br />
<br />
Most developers know that they should be writing tests along with their code, but not every developer knows how or where to get started. This talk will walk through the nuts and bolts of the testing a medium-sized Drupal site with many integrated moving parts. We’ll talk about unit testing of individual functions with [http://www.simpletest.org/en/overview.html SimpleTest] (and how that has changed how we write functions), functional testing of the user interface with [http://casperjs.org/ casperjs]. We will discuss automating deployment with [http://www.phing.info/ phing], [http://drupal.org/project/drush drush], [http://jenkins-ci.org/ jenkins-ci] & github, which, combined with our tests, removes the “hold-your-breath” feeling before updating our live site. <br />
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== Relations, Recommendations and PostgreSQL ==<br />
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* William Denton, Web Librarian, York University, wdenton@yorku.ca<br />
* Dan Scott, Systems Librarian, Laurentian University, dscott@laurentian.ca<br />
<br />
In 2012, a ragtag group of library hackers from various Ontario <br />
universities, funded with only train tickets and fueled with Tim Hortons <br />
coffee, assembled under the Scholars Portal banner to build a common <br />
circulation data repository and recommendation engine: the Scholars <br />
Portal Library Usage-based Recommendation Engine (SPLURGE). PostgreSQL, <br />
the emerging darling of the old-school relational database world, is the <br />
heart of SPLURGE, and the circulation data for Ontario's 400,000 <br />
university students is its blood. Two of the contributors to this effort explore the PostgreSQL features <br />
that SPLURGE uses to ease administration efforts, simplify application <br />
development, and deliver high performance results. If you don't use <br />
PostgreSQL for your data, you might want to try it after this <br />
presentation; if you already do, you'll pick up some new tips and tricks.<br />
<br />
<br />
== A Cure for Romnesia: Site Story Web-Archiving ==<br />
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* Harihar Shankar, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, harihar@lanl.gov<br />
<br />
The web changes constantly, erasing both inconvenient facts and<br />
fictions. At web-scale, preservation organizations cannot be expected<br />
to keep up by using traditional crawling, and they already miss many<br />
important versions. The cure for this is to capture the interactions<br />
between real browsers and the server, and push these into an archive<br />
for safe keeping rather than trying to guess when pages change.<br />
<br />
Every time the Apache Web Server sends data to a browser, SiteStory’s<br />
Apache Module also pushes this data to the SiteStory Web Archive. The<br />
same version of a resource will not be archived more than once, no<br />
matter how many times it has been requested. The resulting archive is<br />
effectively representative of a server's entire history, although<br />
versions of resources that are never requested by a browser will also<br />
never be archived.<br />
<br />
In this presentation I will give an overview of SiteStory, an<br />
Open-Source project written in Java that runs as an application under<br />
Tomcat 6 or greater. SiteStory’s Apache Module is written in C. I will<br />
also demonstrate the TimeMap tool that visualizes versions of a<br />
resource available in the SiteStory archive. The TimeMap tool is a<br />
Firefox browser extension that plots versions of a resource on a<br />
SIMILE timeline. Since the tools uses the Memento protocol, it can<br />
also display versions of resources available in Memento compliant web<br />
archives and content management systems.<br />
<br />
== Practical Relevance Ranking for 10 million books. ==<br />
<br />
* Tom Burton-West, University of Michigan Library, tburtonw@umich.edu<br />
<br />
[http://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust Full-text search] indexes the full-text and metadata for over 10 million books. There are many challenges in tuning relevance ranking for a collection of this size. This talk will discuss some of the underlying issues, some of our experiments to improve relevance ranking, and our ongoing efforts to develop a principled framework for testing changes to relevance ranking.<br />
<br />
Some of the topics covered will include:<br />
<br />
* Length normalization for indexing the full-text of book-length documents<br />
* Indexing granularity for books<br />
<br />
*Testing new features in Solr 4.0:<br />
**New ranking formulas that should work better with book-length documents: BM25 and DFR.<br />
**Grouping/Field Collapsing. Can we index 3 billion pages and then use Solr's field collapsing feature to rank books according to the most relevant page(s)?<br />
**Finite State Automota/Block Trees for storing the in-memory index to the index. Will this allow us to allow wildcards/truncation despite over 2 billion unique terms per index?<br />
<br />
*Relevance testing methodologies:Query log analysis, Click models, Interleaving, A/B testing, and Test collection based evaluation.<br />
<br />
*Testing of a new high-performance storage system to be installed in early 2013. We will report on any tests we are able to run prior to conference time.<br />
<br />
== Browser/Javascript Integration Testing with Ruby ==<br />
<br />
* Jessie Keck, Stanford University, jkeck at stanford dot edu<br />
<br />
It's near impossible to build a rich web application without javascript. We have a lot of great patterns to follow, such as progressive enhancement, to make sure our rich web applications are usable, accessible, and testable. However; when javascript is involved the possibility exists that bugs can be introduced that won't get caught by most unit and integration testing frameworks.<br />
<br />
<br />
This is where Watir (pronounced water) comes in. Watir can be used with popular ruby testing frameworks like RSpec and Capybara. This talk will show how to use the combination of these tools to write RSpec tests using Watir to spin up an application in a variety of browsers, navigate the application, and make assertions about the page using Capybara.<br />
<br />
<br />
Tests using Watir are written in ruby but they don't necessarily need to test ruby application. You can test any application that you can point a browser at, so there are a wide variety of potential uses for tests written with Watir.<br />
<br />
== Immanentizing the Google ==<br />
<br />
* Will Sexton, Duke University Libraries, will.sexton@duke.edu<br />
* Sean Aery, Duke University Libraries, sean.aery@duke.edu<br />
<br />
We're using a "Google-as-a-Service" approach to reduce the complexity and cost of maintaining a structured-data discovery platform for digitized collections and other library-generated content. Our work picks up from a paper in the code4lib Journal by NCSU's Jason Ranollo [1], introducing the idea of embedded HTML microdata for library digital collections. We've extended our RDAa Lite/schema.org implementation by using Google Site Search to develop a customized interface. In our talk, we'll demonstrate how to set up an instance of Site Search, how to customize the display of results, and how to use the platform's filtering, sorting and other useful functions. We'll also report on our analysis of usage data, and discuss our strategy for scaling the system to support global site search in an upcoming library-wide CMS migration project.<br />
<br />
[1] [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6400 "HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org", code4lib #16]<br />
<br />
== Take Your Content and Shove It ==<br />
<br />
* Eric Frierson*, EBSCO Publishing, efrierson@ebscohost.com<br />
<br />
Public services librarians have experimented getting out of the library. For example, the 'embedded librarian' model puts the librarian in class with students, offering help and advice throughout the semester at the point of need. Digital services have also found their way into virtual classrooms by way of links from the course management system (e.g., Blackboard, Moodle) and the occasional embedded search box that serves as a portal into the library's search solution.<br />
<br />
With the release of discovery services and their associated APIs, we can do more. Rather than linking back to the library, we can take our resources and push them into the learning experience, allowing them to escape the library website silo altogether. Imagine a professor being able to search library resources and add items to their course website without ever leaving their CMS, or a student adding items to a folder that shows up in their campus dashboard. What if we could tie the use of library resources to student success in the classroom by leveraging user data from CMS tools? In this session, I will briefly describe how APIs might make these scenarios possible, but then facilitate a discussion on where else we could shove our resources. I hope to initiate a few development projects along these lines.<br />
<br />
* recently the Head of Library Systems at St. Edward's University. Trying not to lose my library cred here. :)<br />
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[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]</div>Efriersonhttps://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_talks_proposals&diff=283122013 talks proposals2012-11-09T16:33:14Z<p>Efrierson: Adding the Proposal "Take Your Content and Shove It"</p>
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== All Teh Metadatas Re-Revisited ==<br />
<br />
* Esme Cowles, UC San Diego Library, escowles AT ucsd DOT edu<br />
* Matt Critchlow, UC San Diego Library, mcritchlow AT ucsd DOT edu<br />
* Bradley Westbrook, UC San Diego Library, bdwestbrook AT ucsd DOT edu<br />
<br />
Last year Declan Fleming presented ALL TEH METADATAS and reviewed our UC<br />
San Diego Library Digital Asset Management system and RDF data model. You<br />
may be shocked to hear that all that metadata wasn't quite enough to<br />
handle increasingly complex digital library and research data in an<br />
elegant way. Our ad-hoc, 8-year-old data model has also been added to in<br />
inconsistent ways and our librarians and developers have not always been<br />
perfectly in sync in understanding how the data model has evolved over<br />
time.<br />
<br />
<br />
In this presentation we'll review our process of locking a team of<br />
librarians and developers in a room to figure out a new data model, from<br />
domain definition through building and testing an OWL ontology. We¹ll also<br />
cover the challenges we ran into, including the review of existing<br />
controlled vocabularies and ontologies, or lack thereof, and the decisions<br />
made to cover the gaps. Finally, we'll discuss how we engaged the digital<br />
library community for feedback and what we have to do next. We all know<br />
that Things Fall Apart, this is our attempt at Doing Better This Time.<br />
<br />
== Modernizing VuFind with Zend Framework 2 ==<br />
<br />
* Demian Katz, Villanova University, demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu<br />
<br />
When setting goals for a new major release of VuFind, use of an existing web framework was an important decision to encourage standardization and avoid reinvention of the wheel. Zend Framework 2 was selected as providing the best balance between the cutting-edge (ZF2 was released in 2012) and stability (ZF1 has a long history and many adopters). This talk will examine some of the architecture and features of the new framework and discuss how it has been used to improve the VuFind project.<br />
<br />
== Did You Really Say That Out Loud? Tools and Techniques for Safe Public WiFi Computing ==<br />
<br />
* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]], LYRASIS, Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org<br />
<br />
Public WiFi networks, even those that have passwords, are nothing more that an old-time [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony) party line]: what every you say can be easily heard by anyone nearby. <br />
Remember [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep Firesheep]? <br />
It was an extension to Firefox that demonstrated how easy it was to snag session cookies and impersonate someone else.<br />
So what are you sending out over the airwaves, and what techniques are available to prevent eavesdropping?<br />
This talk will demonstrate tools and techniques for desktop and mobile operating systems that you should be using right now -- right here at Code4Lib -- to protect your data and your network activity.<br />
<br />
== Drupal 8 Preview — Symfony and Twig ==<br />
<br />
* [[User:Highermath|Cary Gordon]], The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com<br />
<br />
Drupal is a great platform for building web applications. Last year, the core developers decided to adopt the Symfony PHP framework, because it would lay the groundwork for the modernization (and de-PHP4ification) of the Drupal codebase. As I write this, the Symfony ClassLoader and HttpFoundation libraries are committed to Drupal core, with more elements likely before Drupal 8 code freeze.<br />
<br />
It seems almost certain that the Twig templating engine will supplant PHPtemplate as the core Drupal template engine. Twig is a powerful, secure theme building tool that removes PHP from the templating system, the result being a very concise and powerful theme layer.<br />
<br />
Symfony and Twig have a common creator, Fabien Potencier, who's overall goal is to rid the world of the excesses of PHP 4.<br />
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== Neat! But How Do We Do It? - The Real-world Problem of Digitizing Complex Corporate Digital Objects ==<br />
<br />
* Matthew Mariner, University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library, matthew.mariner@ucdenver.edu<br />
<br />
Isn't it neat when you discover that you are the steward of dozens of Sanborn Fire Instance Maps, hundreds of issues of a city directory, and thousands of photographs of persons in either aforementioned medium? And it's even cooler when you decide, "Let's digitize these together and make them one big awesome project to support public urban history"? Unfortunately it's a far more difficult process than one imagines at inception and, sadly, doesn't always come to fruition. My goal here is to discuss the technological (and philosophical) problems librarians and archivists face when trying to create ultra-rich complex corporate digital projects, or, rather, projects consisting of at least three facets interrelated by theme. I intend to address these problems by suggesting management solutions, web workarounds, and, perhaps, a philosophy that might help in determining whether to even move forward or not. Expect a few case studies of "grand ideas crushed by technological limitations" and "projects on the right track" to follow. <br />
<br />
== ResCarta Tools building a standard format for audio archiving, discovery and display ==<br />
<br />
* [[User:sarney|John Sarnowski]], The ResCarta Foundation, john.sarnowski@rescarta.org<br />
<br />
The free ResCarta Toolkit has been used by libraries and archives around the world to host city directories, newspapers, and historic photographs and by aerospace companies to search and find millions of engineering documents. Now the ResCarta team has released audio additions to the toolkit. <br />
<br />
Create full text searchable oral histories, news stories, interviews. or build an archive of lectures; all done to Library of Congress standards. The included transcription editor allows for accurate correction of the data conversion tool’s output. Build true archives of text, photos and audio. A single audio file carries the embedded Axml metadata, transcription, and word location information. Checks with the FADGI BWF Metaedit.<br />
<br />
ResCarta-Web presents your audio to IE, Chome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera browsers with full playback and word search capability. Display format is OGG!! <br />
<br />
You have to see this tool in action. Twenty minutes from an audio file to transcribed, text-searchable website. Be there or be L seven (Yeah, I’m that old) <br />
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== Format Designation in MARC Records: A Trip Down the Rabbit-Hole ==<br />
<br />
* Michael Doran, University of Texas at Arlington, doran@uta.edu<br />
<br />
This presentation will use a seemingly simple data point, the "format" of the item being described, to illustrate some of the complexities and challenges inherent in the parsing of MARC records. I will talk about abstract vs. concrete forms; format designation in the Leader, 006, 007, and 008 fixed fields as well as the 245 and 300 variable fields; pseudo-formats; what is mandatory vs. optional in respect to format designation in cataloging practice; and the differences between cataloging theory and practice as observed via format-related data mining of a mid-size academic library collection. <br />
<br />
I understand that most of us go to code4lib to hear about the latest sexy technologies. While MARC isn't sexy, many of the new tools being discussed still need to be populated with data gleaned from MARC records. MARC format designation has ramifications for search and retrieval, limits, and facets, both in the ILS and further downstream in next generation OPACs and web-scale discovery tools. Even veteran library coders will learn something from this session. <br />
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== Touch Kiosk 2: Piezoelectric Boogaloo ==<br />
<br />
* Andreas Orphanides, North Carolina State University Libraries, akorphan@ncsu.edu<br />
<br />
At the NCSU Libraries, we provide realtime access to information on library spaces and services through an interactive touchscreen kiosk in our Learning Commons. In the summer of 2012, two years after its initial deployment, I redeveloped the kiosk application from the ground up, with an entirely new codebase and a completely redesigned user interface. The changes I implemented were designed to remedy previously identified shortcomings in the code and the interface design [1], and to enhance overall stability and performance of the application.<br />
<br />
In this presentation I will outline my revision process, highlighting the lessons I learned and the practices I implemented in the course of redevelopment. I will highlight the key features of the HTML/Javascript codebase that allow for increased stability, flexibility, and ease of maintenance; and identify the changes to the user interface that resulted from the usability findings I uncovered in my previous research. Finally, I will compare the usage patterns of the new interface to the analysis of the previous implementation to examine the practical effect of the implemented changes.<br />
<br />
I will also provide access to a genericized version of the interface code for others to build their own implementations of similar kiosk applications.<br />
<br />
[1] http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5832<br />
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== Wayfinding in a Cloud: Location Service for libraries ==<br />
<br />
* Petteri Kivimäki, The National Library of Finland, petteri.kivimaki@helsinki.fi<br />
<br />
Searching for books in large libraries can be a difficult task for a novice library user. This paper presents The Location Service, software as a service (SaaS) wayfinding application developed and managed by The National Library of Finland, which is targeted for all the libraries. The service provides additional information and map-based guidance to books and collections by showing their location on a map, and it can be integrated with any library management system, as the integration happens by adding a link to the service in the search interface. The service is being developed continuously based on the feedback received from the users.<br />
<br />
The service has two user interfaces: One for the customers and one for the library staff for managing the information related to the locations. The UI for the customers is fully customizable by the libraries, and the customization is done via template files by using the following techniques: HTML, CSS, and Javascript/jQuery. The service supports multiple languages, and the libraries have a full control of the languages, which they want to support in their environment.<br />
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The service is written in Java and it uses Spring and Hibernate frameworks. The data is stored in PostgreSQL database, which is shared by all the libraries. They do not possess a direct access to the database, but the service offers an interface, which makes it possible to retrieve XML data over HTTP. Modification of the data via admin UI, however, is restricted, and access on the other libraries’ data is blocked.<br />
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== Empowering Collection Owners with Automated Bulk Ingest Tools for DSpace ==<br />
<br />
* Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu<br />
<br />
The Georgetown University Library has developed a number of applications to expedite the process of ingesting content into DSpace.<br />
* Automatically inventory a collection of documents or images to be uploaded<br />
* Generate a spreadsheet for metadata capture based on the inventory<br />
* Generate item-level ingest folders, contents files and dublin core metadata for the items to be ingested<br />
* Validate the contents of ingest folders prior to initiating the ingest to DSpace<br />
* Present users with a simple, web-based form to initiate the batch ingest process<br />
<br />
The applications have eliminated a number of error-prone steps from the ingest workflow and have significantly reduced a number of tedious data editing steps. These applications have empowered content experts to be in charge of their own collections. <br />
<br />
In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.<br />
<br />
== Quality Assurance Reports for DSpace Collections ==<br />
<br />
* Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu<br />
<br />
The Georgetown University Library has developed a collection of quality assurance reports to improve the consistency of the metadata in our DSpace collections. The report infrastructure permits the creation of query snippets to test for possible consistency errors within the repository such as items missing thumbnails, items with multiple thumbnails, items missing a creation date, items containing improperly formatted dates, items without duplicated metadata fields, items recently added items across the repository, a community or a collection<br />
<br />
These reports have served to prioritize programmatic data cleanup tasks and manual data cleanup tasks. The reports have served as a progress tracker for data cleanup work and will provide on-going monitoring of the metadata consistency of the repository.<br />
<br />
In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.<br />
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== A Hybrid Solution for Improving Single Sign-On to a Proxy Service with Squid and EZproxy through Shibboleth and ExLibris’ Aleph X-Server ==<br />
<br />
* Alexander Jerabek, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, jerabek.alexander_j@uqam.ca<br />
* Minh-Quang Nguyen, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, nguyen.minh-quang@uqam.ca<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will describe how we developed and implemented a hybrid solution for improving single sign-on in conjunction with the library’s proxy service. This hybrid solution consists of integrating the disparate elements of EZproxy, the Squid workflow, Shibboleth, and the Aleph X-Server. We will report how this new integrated service improves the user experience. To our knowledge, this new service is unique and has not been implemented anywhere else. We will also present some statistics after approximately one year in production.<br />
<br />
See article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7470<br />
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== HTML5 Video Now! ==<br />
<br />
* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jnronall@ncsu.edu<br />
<br />
Can you use HTML5 video now? Yes.<br />
<br />
I'll show you how to get started using HTML5 video, including gotchas, tips, and tricks. Beyond the basics we'll see the power of having video integrated into HTML and the browser. Finally, we'll look at examples that push the limits and show the exciting future of video on the Web.<br />
<br />
My experience comes from technical development of an oral history video clips project. I developed the technical aspects of the project, including video processing, server configuration, development of a public site, creation of an administrative interface, and video engagement analytics. Major portions of this work have been open sourced under an MIT license.<br />
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== Hybrid Archival Collections Using Blacklight and Hydra ==<br />
<br />
* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, awead@rockhall.org<br />
<br />
At the Library and Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we use available tools such as Archivists' Toolkit to create EAD finding aids of our collections. However, managing digital content created from these materials and the born-digital content that is also part of these collections represents a significant challenge. In my presentation, I will discuss how we solve the problem of our hybrid collections by using Hydra as a digital asset manager and Blacklight as a unified presentation and discovery interface for all our materials.<br />
<br />
Our strategy centers around indexing ead xml into Solr as multiple documents: one for each collection, and one for every series, sub-series and item contained within a collection. For discovery, we use this strategy to leverage item-level searching of archival collections alongside our traditional library content. For digital collections, we use this same technique to represent a finding aid in Hydra as a set of linked objects using RDF. New digital items are then linked to these parent objects at the collection and series level. Once this is done, the items can be exported back out to the Blacklight solr index and the digital content appears along with the rest of the items in the collection.<br />
<br />
== Making the Web Accessible through Solid Design ==<br />
<br />
* [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia Ng]] from Ryerson University Library & Archives<br />
<br />
In libraries, we are always trying our best to be accessible to everyone and we make every effort to do so physically, but what about our websites? Web designers are great at talking about the user experience and how to improve it, but what sometimes gets overlooked is how to make a site more accessible and meet accessibility guidelines. While guidelines are necessary to cover a minimum standard, web accessibility should come from good web design without ‘sacrificing’ features. While it's difficult to make a website fully accessible to everyone, there are easy, practical ways to make a site as accessible as possible.<br />
<br />
While the focus will be on websites and meeting the Web Accessibility Guidelines WCAG, the presentation will also touch on how to make custom web interfaces accessible.<br />
<br />
== Getting People to What They Need Fast! A Wayfinding Tool to Locate Books & Much More ==<br />
<br />
* Steven Marsden, Ryerson University Library & Archives, steven dot marsden at ryerson dot ca<br />
* [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia Ng]], Ryerson University Library & Archives<br />
<br />
Having a bewildered, lost user in the building or stacks is a common occurrence, but we can help our users find their way through enhanced maps and floor plans. While not a new concept, these maps are integrated into the user’s flow of information without having to load a special app. The map not only highlights the location, but also provides all the related information with a link back to the detailed item view. During the first stage of the project, it has only be implemented for books (and other physical items), but the 'RULA Finder' is built to help users find just about anything and everything in the library including study rooms, computer labs, and staff. With a simple to use admin interface, it makes it easy for everyone, staff and users. <br />
<br />
The application is written in PHP with data stored in a MySQL database. The end-user interface involves jQuery, JSON, and the library's discovery layer (Summon) API.<br />
<br />
The presentation will not only cover the technical aspects, but also the implementation and usability findings.<br />
<br />
== De-sucking the Library User Experience ==<br />
<br />
* Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University, j-prevost {AT} northwestern [DOT] edu<br />
<br />
Have you ever thought that library vendors purposely create the worst possible user experience they can imagine because they just hate users? Have you ever thought that your own library website feels like it was created by committee rather than for users because, well, it was? I’ll talk about how we used vendor supplied APIs to our ILS and Discovery tool to create an experience for our users that sucks at least a little bit less.<br />
<br />
The talk will provide specific examples of how inefficient or confusing vendor supplied solutions are from a user perspective along with our specific streamlined solutions to the same problems. Code examples will be minimal as the focus will be on improving user experience rather than any one code solution of doing that. Examples may include the seemingly simple tasks of renewing a book or requesting an item from another campus library.<br />
<br />
== Solr Testing Is Easy with Rspec-Solr Gem ==<br />
<br />
* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University, ndushay AT stanford DOT edu<br />
<br />
How do you know if <br />
<br />
* your idea for "left anchoring" searches actually works?<br />
* your field analysis for LC call numbers accommodates a suffix between the first and second cutter without breaking the rest of LC call number parsing?<br />
* tweaking Solr configs to improve, say, Chinese searching, won't break Turkish and Cyrillic?<br />
* changes to your solrconfig file accomplish what you wanted without breaking anything else?<br />
<br />
Avoid the whole app stack when writing Solr acceptance/relevancy/regression tests! Forget cucumber and capybara. This gem lets you easily (only 4 short files needed!) write tests like this, passing arbitrary parameters to Solr:<br />
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it "unstemmed author name Zare should precede stemmed variants" do<br />
resp = solr_response(author_search_args('Zare').merge({'fl'=>'id,author_person_display', 'facet'=>false}))<br />
resp.should include("author_person_display" => /\bZare\W/).in_each_of_first(3).documents<br />
resp.should_not include("author_person_display" => /Zaring/).in_each_of_first(20).documents<br />
end<br />
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it "Cyrillic searching should work: Восемьсoт семьдесят один день" do<br />
resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'Восемьсoт семьдесят один день'})<br />
resp.should include("9091779")<br />
end<br />
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it "q of 'String quartets Parts' and variants should be plausible " do<br />
resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'String quartets Parts'})<br />
resp.should have_at_least(2000).documents<br />
resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'(String quartets Parts)'}))<br />
resp.should have_more_results_than(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'"String quartets Parts"'}))<br />
end<br />
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it "Traditional Chinese chars 三國誌 should get the same results as simplified chars 三国志" do<br />
resp = solr_response({'q'=>'三國誌', 'fl'=>'id', 'facet'=>false}) <br />
resp.should have_at_least(240).documents<br />
resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'三国志'})) <br />
end<br />
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See<br />
http://rubydoc.info/github/sul-dlss/rspec-solr/frames<br />
https://github.com/sul-dlss/rspec-solr<br />
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and our production relevancy/acceptance/regression tests slowly migrating from cucumber to:<br />
https://github.com/sul-dlss/sw_index_tests<br />
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== Northwestern's Digital Image Library ==<br />
<br />
*Mike Stroming, Northwestern University Library, m-stroming AT northwestern DOT edu<br />
*Edgar Garcia, Northwestern University Library, edgar-garcia AT northwestern DOT edu<br />
<br />
At Northwestern University Library, we are about to release a beta version of our Digital Image Library (DIL). DIL is an implementation of the Hydra technology that provides a Fedora repository solution for discovery of and access to over 100,000 images for staff, students, and scholars. Some important features are:<br />
<br />
*Build custom collection of images using drag-and-drop<br />
*Re-order images within a collection using drag-and-drop<br />
*Nest collections within other collections<br />
*Create details/crops of images<br />
*Zoom, rotate images<br />
*Upload personal images<br />
*Retrieve your own uploads and details from a collection<br />
*Export a collection to a PowerPoint presentation<br />
*Create a group of users and authorize access to your images<br />
*Batch edit image metadata<br />
<br />
Our presentation will include a demo, explanation of the architecture, and a discussion of the benefits of being a part of the Hydra open-source community.<br />
<br />
== Two standards in a software (to say nothing of Normarc) ==<br />
<br />
*Zeno Tajoli, CINECA (Italy), z DOT tajoli AT cineca DOT it<br />
<br />
With this presentation I want to show how ILS Koha handles the support of three differnt MARC dialects:<br />
MARC21, Unimarc and Normarc. The main points of the presentation:<br />
<br />
*Three MARC at MySQL level<br />
*Three MARC at API level<br />
*Three MARC at display<br />
*Can I add a new format ?<br />
<br />
== Future Friendly Web Design for Libraries ==<br />
<br />
*[[User:michaelschofield|Michael Schofield]], Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center, mschofied[dot]nova[dot]edu<br />
<br />
Libraries on the web are afterthoughts. Often their design is stymied on one hand by red tape imposed by the larger institution and on the other by an overload of too democratic input from colleagues. Slashed budgets / staff stretched too thin foul-up the R-word (that'd be "redesign") - but things are getting pretty strange. Notions about the Web (and where it can be accessed) are changing. <br />
<br />
So libraries can only avoid refabbing their fixed-width desktop and jQuery Mobile m-dot websites for so long until desktop users evaporate and demand from patrons with web-ready refrigerators becomes deafening. Just when we have largely hopped on the bandwagon and gotten enthusiastic about being online, our users expect a library's site to look and perform great on everything. <br />
<br />
Our presence on the web should be built to weather ever-increasing device complexity. To meet users at their point of need, libraries must start thinking Future Friendly.<br />
<br />
This overview rehashes the approach and philosophy of library web design, re-orienting it for maximum accessibility and maximum efficiency of design. While just 20 minutes, we'll mull over techniques like mobile-first responsive web design, modular CSS, browser feature detection for progressive enhancement, and lots of nifty tricks.<br />
<br />
==BYU's discovery layer service aggregator==<br />
<br />
*Curtis Thacker, Brigham Young University, curtis.thacker AT byu DOT edu<br />
<br />
It is clear that libraries will continue to experience rapid change based on the speed of technology. To acknowledge this new reality and to provide rapid response to shifting end user paradigms BYU has developed a custom service aggregator. At first our vendors looked at us a bit funny; however, in the last year they have been astonished with the fluid implementation of new services – here’s the short list:<br />
<br />
*filmfinder - a tool for browsing and searching films<br />
*A custom book recommender service based on checkout data<br />
*Integrated library services like personell, library hours, study room scheduler and database finder through a custom adwords system.<br />
*A very geeky and powerful utility used for converting marc XML into primo compliant xml.<br />
*Embedded floormaps<br />
*A responsive web design<br />
*Bing did-you-mean<br />
*And many more.<br />
<br />
I will demo the system, review the archtecture and talk about future plans.<br />
<br />
==The Avalon Media System: A Next Generation Hydra Head For Audio and Video Delivery==<br />
<br />
* Michael Klein, Senior Software Developer, Northwestern University LIbrary, michael.klein AT northwestern DOT edu<br />
* Nathan Rogers, Programmer/Analyst, Indiana University, rogersna AT indiana DOT edu<br />
<br />
Based on the success of the [http://www.dml.indiana.edu/ Variations] digital music platform, Indiana University and Northwestern University have developed a next generation educational tool for delivering multimedia resources to the classroom. The Avalon Media System (formerly Variations on Video) supports the ingest, media processing, management, and access-controlled delivery of library-managed video and audio collections. To do so, the system draws on several existing, mature, open source technologies:<br />
<br />
* The ingest, search, and discovery functionality of the Hydra framework<br />
* The powerful multimedia workflow management features of Opencast Matterhorn<br />
* The flexible Engage audio/video player<br />
* The streaming capabilities of both Red5 Media Server (open source) and Adobe Flash Media Server (proprietary)<br />
<br />
Extensive customization options are built into the framework for tailoring the application to the needs of a specific institution.<br />
<br />
Our goal is to create an open platform that can be used by other institutions to serve the needs of the academic community. Release 1 is planned for a late February launch with future versions released every couple of months following. For more information visit http://avalonmediasystem.org/ and https://github.com/variations-on-video/hydrant.<br />
<br />
== The DH Curation Guide: Building a Community Resource == <br />
<br />
*Robin Davis, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, robdavis AT jjay.cuny.edu <br />
*James Little, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, little9 AT illinois.edu <br />
<br />
Data curation for the digital humanities is an emerging area of research and practice. The DH Curation Guide, launched in July 2012, is an educational resource that addresses aspects of humanities data curation in a series of expert-written articles. Each provides a succinct introduction to a topic with annotated lists of useful tools, projects, standards, and good examples of data curation done right. The DH Curation Guide is intended to be a go-to resource for data curation practitioners and learners in libraries, archives, museums, and academic institutions. <br />
<br />
Because it's a growing field, we designed the DH Curation Guide to be a community-driven, living document. We developed a granular commenting system that encourages data curation community members to contribute remarks on articles, article sections, and article paragraphs. Moreover, we built in a way for readers to contribute and annotate resources for other data curation practitioners. <br />
<br />
This talk will address how the DH Curation Guide is currently used and will include a sneak peek at the articles that are in store for the Guide’s future. We will talk about the difficulties and successes of launching a site that encourages community. We are all builders here, so we will also walk through developing the granular commenting/annotation system and the XSLT-powered publication workflow. <br />
<br />
== Solr Update == <br />
<br />
*Erik Hatcher, LucidWorks, erik.hatcher AT lucidworks.com <br />
<br />
Solr is continually improving. Solr 4 was recently released, bringing dramatic changes in the underlying Lucene library and Solr-level features. It's tough for us all to keep up with the various versions and capabilities.<br />
<br />
This talk will blaze through the highlights of new features and improvements in Solr 4 (and up). Topics will include: SolrCloud, direct spell checking, surround query parser, and many other features. We will focus on the features library coders really need to know about.<br />
<br />
== Reports for the People == <br />
<br />
*Kara Young, Keene State College, NH, kyoung1 at keene.edu<br />
*Dana Clark, Keene State College, NH, dclark5 at keene.edu<br />
<br />
Libraries are increasingly being called upon to provide information on how our programs and services are moving our institutional strategic goals forward. In support of College and departmental Information Literacy learning outcomes, Mason Library Systems at Keene State College developed an assessment database to record and report assessment activities by Library faculty. Frustrated by the lack of freely available options for intuitively recording, accounting for, and outputting useful reports on instructional activities, Librarians requested a tool to make capturing and reporting activities (and their lives) easier. Library Systems was able to respond to this need by working with librarians to identify what information is necessary to capture, where other assessment tools had fallen short, and ultimately by developing an application that supports current reporting imperatives while providing flexibility for future changes.<br />
<br />
The result of our efforts was an in-house browser interfaced Assessment Database to improve the process of data collection and analysis. The application is written in PHP, data stored in a MySQL database, and presented via browser making extensive use of JQuery and JQuery plug-ins for data collection, manipulation, and presentation. <br />
The presentation will outline the process undertaken to build a successful collaboration with Library faculty from conception to implementation, as well as the technical aspects of our trial-and-error approach. Plus: cool charts and graphs!<br />
<br />
== Network Analyses of Library Catalog Data ==<br />
<br />
* Kirk Hess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, kirkhess AT illinois.edu<br />
* Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, green19 AT illinois.edu <br />
<br />
Library collections are all too often like icebergs: The amount exposed on the surface is only a fraction of the actual amount of content, and we’d like to recommend relevant items from deep within the catalog to users. With the assistance of an XSEDE Allocation grant (http://xsede.org), we’ve used R to reconstitute anonymous circulation data from the University of Illinois’s library catalog into separate user transactions. The transaction data is incorporated into subject analyses that use XSEDE supercomputing resources to generate predictive network analyses and visualizations of subject areas searched by library users using Gephi (https://gephi.org/). The test data set for developing the subject analyses consisted of approximately 38,000 items from the Literatures and Languages Library that contained 110,000 headings and 130,620 transactions. We’re currently working on developing a recommender system within VuFind to display the results of these analyses.<br />
<br />
== Pitfall! Working with Legacy Born Digital Materials in Special Collections ==<br />
<br />
* Donald Mennerich, The New York Public Library, don.mennerich AT gmail.com<br />
* Mark A. Matienzo, Yale University Library, mark AT matienzo.org<br />
<br />
Archives and special collections are being faced with a growing abundance of born digital material, as well as an abundance of many promising tools for managing them. However, one must consider the potential problems that can arise when approaching a collection containing legacy materials (from roughly the pre-internet era). Many of the tried and true, "best of breed" tools for digital preservation don't always work as they do for more recent materials, requiring a fair amount of ingenuity and use of "word of mouth tradecraft and knowledge exchanged through serendipitous contacts, backchannel conversations, and beer" (Kirschenbaum, "Breaking <code>badflag</code>").<br />
<br />
Our presentation will focus on some of the strange problems encountered and creative solutions devised by two digital archivists in the course of preserving, processing, and providing access to collections at their institutions. We'll be placing particular particular emphasis of the pitfalls and crocodiles we've learned to swing over safely, while collecting treasure in the process. We'll address working with CP/M disks in collections of authors' papers, reconstructing a multipart hard drive backup spread across floppy disks, and more. <br />
<br />
== Project <s>foobar</s> FUBAR ==<br />
<br />
* Becky Yoose, Grinnell College, yoosebec AT grinnell DOT edu<br />
<br />
Be it mandated from Those In A Higher Pay Grade Than You or self-inflicted, many of us deal with managing major library-related technology projects [1]. It’s common nowadays to manage multiple technology projects, and generally external and internal issues can be planned for to minimize project timeline shifts and quality of deliverables. Life, however, has other plans for you, and all your major library technology infrastructure projects pile on top of each other at the same time. How do you and your staff survive a train wreck of technology projects and produce deliverables to project stakeholders without having to go into the library IT version of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program?<br />
<br />
This session covers my experience with the collision of three major library technology projects - including a new institutional repository and an integrated library system migration - and how we dealt with external and internal factors, implemented damage control, and overall lessening the damage from the epic crash. You might laugh, you might cry, you will probably have flashbacks from previous projects, but you will come out of this session with a set of tools to use when you’re dealing with managing mission-critical projects.<br />
<br />
[1] Past code4lib talks have covered specific project management strategies, such as Agile, for application development. I will be focusing on and discussing general project management practices in relation to various library technology projects, many of which these strategies include in their own structures.<br />
<br />
== Implementing RFID in an Academic Library == <br />
<br />
* Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University, sbacon AT coastal DOT edu<br />
<br />
Coastal Carolina University’s Kimbel Library recently implemented RFID to increase security, provide better inventory control over library materials and enable do-it-yourself patron services such as self checkout. <br />
<br />
I’ll give a quick overview of RFID and the components involved and then will talk about how our library utilized the technology. It takes a lot of research, time, money and not too little resourcefulness to make your library RFID-ready. I’ll show how we developed our project timeline, how we assessed and evaluated vendors and how we navigated the bid process. I’ll also talk about hardware and software installation, configuration and troubleshooting and will discuss our book and media collection encoding process. <br />
<br />
We encountered myriad issues with our vendor, the hardware and the software. Would we do it all over again? Should your library consider RFID? Caveats abound...<br />
<br />
== Coding an Academic Library Intranet in Drupal: Now We're Getting Organizized... ==<br />
<br />
* Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University, sbacon AT coastal DOT edu<br />
<br />
The Kimbel Library Intranet is coded in Drupal 7, and was created to increase staff communication and store documentation. This presentation will contain an overview of our intranet project, including the modules we used, implementation issues, and possible directions in future development phases. I won’t forget to talk about the slew of tasty development issues we faced, including dealing with our university IT department, user buy-in, site navigation, user roles, project management, training and mobile modules (or the lack thereof). And some other fun (mostly) true anecdotes will surely be shared. <br />
<br />
The main functions of Phase I of this project were to increase communication across departments and committees, facilitate project management and revise the library's shared drive. Another important function of this first phase was to host mission-critical documentation such as strategic goals, policies and procedures. Phase II of this project will focus on porting employee tasks into the centralized intranet environment. This development phase, which aims to replicate and automate the bulk of staff workflows within a content management system, will be a huge undertaking. <br />
<br />
We chose Drupal as our intranet platform because of its extensibility, flexibility and community support. We are also moving our entire library web presence to Drupal in 2013 and will be soliciting any advice on which modules to use/avoid and which third-party services to wrangle into the Drupal environment. Should we use Drupal as the back-end to our entire Web presence? Why or why not?<br />
<br />
== Hands off! Best Practices and Top Ten Lists for Code Handoffs ==<br />
<br />
* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University Library, ndushay@stanford.edu<br />
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu<br />
<br />
Transition points in who is the primary developer on an actively developing code base can be a source of frustration for everyone involved. We've tried to minimize that pain point as much as possible through the use of agile methods like test driven development, continuous integration, and modular design. Has optimizing for developer happiness brought us happiness? What's worked, what hasn't, and what's worth adopting? How do you keep your project in a state where you can easily hand it off? <br />
<br />
== How to be an effective evangelist for your open source project ==<br />
<br />
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu<br />
<br />
The difference between an open source software project that gets new adopters and new contributing community members (which is to say, a project that goes on existing for any length of time) and a project that doesn't, often isn't a question of superior design or technology. It's more often a question of whether the advocates for the project can convince institutional leaders AND front line developers that a project is stable and trustworthy. What are successful strategies for attracting development partners? I'll try to answer that and talk about what we could do as a community to make collaboration easier. <br />
<br />
== Thoughts from an open source vendor - What makes a "good" vendor in a meritocracy? ==<br />
<br />
* Matt Zumwalt, Data Curation Experts / MediaShelf / Hydra Project, matt@curationexperts.com<br />
<br />
What is the role of vendors in open source? What should be the position of vendors in a meritocracy? What are the avenues for encouraging great vendors who contribute to open source communities in valuable ways? How you answer these questions has a huge impact on a community, and in order to formulate strong answers, you need to be well informed. Let’s glimpse at the business practicalities of this situation, beginning with 1) an overview of the viable profit models for open-source software, 2) some of the realities of vendor involvement in open source, and 3) an account of the ins & outs of compensation & equity structures within for-profit corporations.<br />
<br />
The topics of power & influence, fairness, community participation, software quality, employment and personal profit are fair game, along with software licensing, support, sponsorship, closed source software and the role of sales people.<br />
<br />
This presentation will draw on personal experience from the past seven years spent bootstrapping and running MediaShelf, a small but prolific for-profit consulting company that focuses entirely on open source digital repository software. MediaShelf has played an active role in creating the Hydra Framework and continuously contributes to maintenance of Fedora and Blacklight. Those contributions have been funded through consulting contracts for authoring & implementing open source software on behalf of organizations around the world.<br />
<br />
==Occam’s Reader: A system that allows the sharing of eBooks via Interlibrary Loan==<br />
<br />
*Ryan Litsey, Texas Tech University, Ryan DOT Litsey AT ttu.edu<br />
*Kenny Ketner, Texas Tech University, Kenny DOT Ketner AT ttu.edu<br />
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Occam’s Reader is a software platform that allows the transfer and sharing of electronic books between libraries via existing interlibrary loan software. Occam’s Reader allows libraries to meet the growing need to be able to share our electronic resources. In the ever-increasing digital world, many of our collection development plans now include eBook platforms. The problem with eBooks, however, is that they are resources that are locked into the home library. With Occam’s Reader we can continue the centuries-old tradition of resource sharing and also keep up with the changing digital landscape. <br />
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== Using Puppet for configuration management when no two servers look alike ==<br />
* Eugene Vilensky, Senior Systems Administrator, Northwestern University Library, evilensky northwestern edu<br />
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Configuration management is hot because it allows one to scale to thousands of machines, all of which look alike, and tightly manage changes across the nodes. Infrastructure as code, implement all changes programmatically, yadda yadda yadda.<br />
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Unfortunately, servers which have gone unmanaged for a long time do not look very similar to each other. Variables come in many forms, usually because of some or all of the following: Who installed the server, where it was installed, where the image was sourced from, when it was installed, where additional packages were sourced, and what kind of software was hosted on it.<br />
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Bringing such machines into your configuration management platform is no harder and no easier than some or all of the following options options: 1) blow such machines away and start from scratch, migrate your data. 2) Find the lowest common baseline between the current state and the ideal state and start the work there. 3) implement new features/services on existing unmanaged machines but manage the new features/services.<br />
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I will describe our experiences at the library for all three options using the Puppet open-source tool on Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.<br />
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== REST <b>IS</b> Your Mobile Strategy ==<br />
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* Richard Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago, richwolf@uic.edu<br />
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Mobile is the new hotness ... and you can't be one of the cool kids unless you've got your own mobile app ... but the road to mobility is daunting. I'll argue that it's actually easier than it seems ... and that the simplest way to mobility is to bring your data to the party, create a REST API around the data, tell developers about your API, and then let the magic happen. To make my argument concrete, I'll show (lord help me!) how to go from an interesting REST API to a fun iOS tool for librarians and the general public in twenty minutes.<br />
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== ARCHITECTING ScholarSphere: How We Built a Repository App That Doesn't Feel Like Yet Another Janky Old Repository App ==<br />
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* Dan Coughlin, Penn State University, danny@psu.edu<br />
* Mike Giarlo, Penn State University, michael@psu.edu<br />
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ScholarSphere is a web application that allows the Penn State research community to deposit, share, and manage its scholarly works. It is also, as some of our users and our peers have observed, a repository app that feels much more like Google Docs or GitHub than earlier-generation repository applications. ScholarSphere is built upon the Hydra framework (Fedora Commons, Solr, Blacklight, Ruby on Rails), MySQL, Redis, Resque, FITS, ImageMagick, jQuery, Bootstrap, and FontAwesome. We'll talk about techniques we used to:<br />
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* eliminate Fedora-isms in the application<br />
* model and expose RDF metadata in ways that users find unobtrusive<br />
* manage permissions via a UI widget that doesn't stab you in the face<br />
* harvest and connect controlled vocabularies (such as LCSH) to forms<br />
* make URIs cool<br />
* keep the app snappy without venturing into the architectural labyrinth of YAGNI<br />
* build and queue background jobs<br />
* expose social features and populate activity streams<br />
* tie checksum verification, characterization, and version control to the UI<br />
* let users upload and edit multiple files at once<br />
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The application will be demonstrated; code will be shown; and we solemnly commit to showing ABSOLUTELY NO XML.<br />
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==Coding with Mittens==<br />
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*Jim LeFager, DePaul University Library jlefager@depaul.edu<br />
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Working in an environment where developers have restricted access to servers and development areas, or where you are primarily working in multiple hosted systems with limited access, can be a challenge when you are attempting to incorporate any new functionality or improve an existing one. Hosted web services present a benefit so that staff time is not dedicated to server maintenance and development, but customization can be difficult and at times impossible. In many cases, incorporating any current API functionality requires additional work besides the original development work which can be frustrating and inefficient. The result can be a Frankenstein monster of web services that is confusing to the user and difficult to navigate. <br />
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This talk will focus on some effective best practices, and maybe not so great but necessary practices that we have adopted to develop and improve our user’s experience using javascript/jQuery and CSS to manipulate our hosted environments. This will include a review of available tools that allow collaborative development in the cloud, as well as examples of jQuery methods that have allowed us to take additional control of these hosted environments as well as track them using Google Analytics. Included will be examples from Springshare Campus Guides, CONTENTdm and other hosted web spaces that have been ‘hacked’ to improve the UI. <br />
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== Hacking the DPLA ==<br />
* Nate Hill, Chattanooga Public Library, nathanielhill AT gmail.com<br />
* Sam Klein, Wikipedia, metasj AT gmail.com<br />
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The Digital Public Library of America is a growing open-source platform to support digital libraries and archives of all kinds. DPLA-alpha is available for testing, with data from six initial Hubs. New APIs and data feeds are in development, with the next release scheduled for April. <br />
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Come learn what we are doing, how to contribute or hack the DPLA roadmap, and how you (or your favorite institution) can draw from and publish through it. Larger institutions can join as a (content or service) hub, helping to aggregate and share metadata and services from across their {region, field, archive-type}. We will discuss current challenges and possibilities (UI and API suggestions wanted!), apps being built on the platform, and related digitization efforts.<br />
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DPLA has a transparent community and planning process; new participants are always welcome. Half the time will be for suggestions and discussion. Please bring proposals, problems, partnerships and possible paradoxes to discuss.<br />
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== Introduction to SilverStripe 3.0 ==<br />
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* Ian Walls, University of Massachusetts Amherst, iwalls AT library DOT umass DOT edu<br />
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SilverStripe is an open source Content Management System/development framework out of New Zealand, written in PHP, with a solid MVC structure. This presentation will cover everything you need to know to get started with SilverStripe, including<br />
* Features (and why you should consider SilverStripe)<br />
* Requirements & Installation<br />
* Model-View-Controller<br />
* Key data types & configuration settings<br />
* Modules<br />
* Where to start with customization<br />
* Community support and participation<br />
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== Citation search in SOLR and second-order operators ==<br />
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* Roman Chyla, Astrophysics Data System, roman.chyla AT (cfa.harvad.edu|gmail.com)<br />
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Citation search is basically about connections (Is the paper read by a friend of mine more important than others? Get me a paper read by somebody who cites many papers/is cited by many papers?), but the implementation of the citation search is surprisingly useful in many other areas.<br />
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I will show 'guts' of the new citation search for astrophysics, it is generic and can be applied recursively to any Lucene query. Some people would call it a second-order operation because it works with the results of the previous (search) function. The talk will see technical details of the special query class, its collectors, how to add a new search operator and how to influence relevance scores. Then you can type with me: friends_of(friends_of(cited_for(keyword:"black holes") AND keyword:"red dwarf"))<br />
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== Managing Segmented Images and Hierarchical Collections with Fedora-Commons and Solr ==<br />
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* David Lacy, Villanova University, david DOT lacy AT villanova.edu<br />
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Many of the resources within our digital library are split into parts -- newspapers, scrapbooks and journals being examples of collections of individual scanned pages. In some cases, groups of pages within a collection, or segments within a particular page, may also represent chapters or articles.<br />
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We recently devised a procedure to extract these "segmented resources" into their own objects within our repository, and index them individually in our Discovery Layer.<br />
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In this talk I will explain how we dissected and organized these newly created resources with an extension to our Fedora Model, and how we make them discoverable through Solr configurations that facilitate browsable hierarchical relationships and field-collapsed results that group items within relevant resources.<br />
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== Google Analytics, Event Tracking and Discovery Tools==<br />
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* Emily Lynema, North Carolina State University Libraries. ejlynema AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
* Adam Constabaris, North Carolina State University Libraries, ajconsta AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
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The NCSU Libraries is using Google Analytics increasingly across its website as a replacement for usage tracking via Urchin. More recently, we have also begun to use the event tracking features in Google Analytics. This has allowed us to gather usage statistics for activities that don’t initiate new requests to the server, such as clicks that hide and show already-loaded content (as in many tabbed interfaces). Aggregating these events together with pageview tracking in Google Analytics presents a more unified picture of patron activity and can help improve design of tools like the library catalog. While assuming a basic understanding of the use of Google Analytics pageview tracking, this presentation will start with an introduction to the event tracking capabilities that may be less widely known. <br />
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We’ll share library catalog usage data pulled from Google Analytics, including information about features that are common across the newest wave of catalog interfaces, such as tabbed content, Google Preview, and shelf browse. We will also cover the approach taken for the technical implementation of this data-intensive JavaScript event tracking.<br />
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As a counterpart, we can demonstrate how we have begun to use Google Analytics event tracking in a proprietary vendor discovery tool (Serials Solutions Summon). While the same technical ideas govern this implementation, we can highlight the differences (read, challenges) inherent in utilizing this type of event tracking in vendor-owned application vs. a locally developed application.<br />
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Along the way, hopefully you’ll learn a little about why you might (or might not) want to use Google Analytics event tracking yourself and see some interesting catalog usage stats.<br />
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== Actions speak louder than words: Analyzing large-scale query logs to improve the research experience ==<br />
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* Raman Chandrasekar, Serials Solutions, Raman DOT Chandrasekar AT serialssolutions DOT com<br />
* Ted Diamond, Serials Solutions, Ted DOT Diamond AT serialssolutions DOT com<br />
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Analyzing anonymized query and click through logs leads to a better understanding of user behaviors and intentions and provides great opportunities to respond to users with an improved search experience. A large-scale provider of SaaS services, Serials Solutions is uniquely positioned to learn from the dataset of queries aggregated from the Summon service generated by millions of users at hundreds of libraries around the world.<br />
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In this session, we will describe our Relevance Metrics Framework and provide examples of insights gained during its development and implementation. We will also cover recent product changes inspired by these insights. Chandra and Ted, from the Summon dev team, will share insights and outcomes from this ongoing process and highlight how analysis of large-scale query logs helps improve the academic research experience.<br />
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== Supporting Gaming in the College Classroom == <br />
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*Megan O'Neill, Albion College, moneill AT albion DOT edu<br />
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Faculty are increasingly interested both in teaching with games and with gamifying their courses. Introducing digital games and game support for faculty through the library makes a lot of sense, but it comes with a thorny set of issues. This talk will discuss our library's initial steps toward creating a digital gamerspace and game support infrastructure in the library, including:<br />
1) The scope and acquisitions decisions that make the most sense for us, and 2) Some difficulties we've discovered in trying to get our collection, physical- , digital- and head-space, and infrastructure up and going.<br />
There will also be an extremely brief overview of WHY we decided to teach with games and to support gamification, what (if anything) to do about mobile gaming, and where games in education might be going.<br />
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== Codecraft ==<br />
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* Devon Smith, OCLC Research, smithde@oclc.org<br />
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We can think of and talk about software development as science, engineering, and craft. In this presentation, I'll talk about the craft aspect of software. From Wikipedia[1]: "In English, to describe something as a craft is to describe it as lying somewhere between an art (which relies on talent and technique) and a science (which relies on knowledge). In this sense, the English word craft is roughly equivalent to the ancient Greek term techne." Of the questions who, what, where, why, when, and how, I will focus on why and how, with a minor in where.<br />
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'''N.B.''': This will be a NON-TECHNICAL talk.<br />
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft#Classification<br />
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== KnowBot: A Tool to Manage Reference and Beyond == <br />
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* Sarah Park, Northwest Missouri State University<br />
* Hong Gyu Han, Northwest Missouri State University<br />
* Lori Mardis, Northwest Missouri State University<br />
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Northwest Missouri State University has developed and used RefPole for collecting and analyzing reference statistics since 2005. RefPole was a tool to answer librarians’ needs to manage reference statistics and knowledge among librarians. It was an analysis tool for the library leaders to make decisions on library operations. RefPole was adequate for the internal use; however, it was developed for local access which keeps the collective reference knowledge from being shared beyond the desktop and from being accessed by students and faculty. <br />
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In 2011, responding to growing internal and external need, the library has developed a web based knowledge base management system, KnowBot, in Ruby on Rail. KnowBot offers public searching, rating, cloud tagging, librarian, and reporting interfaces. With the additional public interfaces, it also extended reference services 24/7. Librarians can record responses to questions with graphics and multimedia. The reporting interface features not only the simple transactional data, but it also exhibits multi-dimensional analytic tool in real time.<br />
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The presenters will demonstrate KnowBot; share the source code; and discuss the use of the knowledge base to answer the organizational and public need.<br />
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== Creating a (mostly) integrated Patron Account with SirsiDynix Symphony and ILLiad ==<br />
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* Emily Lynema, North Carolina State University Libraries, ejlynema AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
* Jason Raitz, North Carolina State University Libraries, jcraitz AT ncsu DOT edu<br />
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IIn 2012, the NCSU Libraries at long last replaced a vendor “my account” tool that had been running unsupported for years. With the opportunity to create something new, one of the initial goals was a user experience that more seamlessly combined ILS data from SirsiDynix Symphony with ILL data from ILLiad. As a Kuali OLE beta partner, the NCSU Libraries is looking at an ILS migration within the next few years, so another goal was to build the interface on top of a standard so it would not have to be re-written as part of the migration. And the icing on the cake was a transition from a local Perl-based authentication system to the newer campus-wide Shibboleth authentication.<br />
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This presentation will start with our design goals for a new user interface, include a demonstration, and describe the simple techniques used to provide a more integrated view of Symphony and ILLiad patron data. The backbone of the actual application is built using Zend’s PHP Framework and integrates eXtensible Catalog’s NCIP Toolkit to reach out to Symphony for patron data. In addition, we can talk about our successes (and difficulties) using jQuery Mobile to create a mobile view using the same underlying code as the web version. As one of our first Shibboleth applications here in the Libraries, this experience also taught us first-hand about some of the challenges of this type of single sign-on.<br />
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== SKOS Name Authority in a DSpace Institutional Repository ==<br />
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* Tom Johnson, Oregon State University, thomas.johnson@oregonstate.edu<br />
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Name ambiguity is widespread in institutional repositories. Searching by author, users are typically greeted by a variety of misspellings and permutations of initials, collision between contributors with similar names, and other problems inherent in uncontrolled (often user-submitted) data. While DSpace has the technical capacity to use controlled names, it relies on outside authority files (from LoC, for example) to do the heavy lifting. For institutional authors, this leaves a major coverage gap and creates namespace pollution on a vast scale (try searching [http://authorities.loc.gov authorities.loc.gov] for "Johnson, John", sometime). <br />
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OSU is solving this problem with an institutionally scoped, low maintenance SKOS/FOAF "name authority file". People in the IR are assigned URIs, names are maintained as skos:prefLabel, altLabel, or hiddenLabel. We've developed a simple Python application allowing staff to update individual "records", and code on the DSpace side to access the dataset over SPARQL. This presentation will walk you through where we are now, limitations we've run into, and possibilities for the future.<br />
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== Meta-Harvesting: Harvesting the Harvesters ==<br />
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* Steven Anderson, Boston Public Library, sanderson AT bpl DOT org<br />
* Eben English, Boston Public Library, eenglish AT bpl DOT org<br />
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The emerging Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la/) has proposed to aggregate digital content for search and discovery from several regional "service hubs" that will provide metadata via an as-yet-unspecified harvest process. As these service hubs are already harvesters of digital content from myriad sources themselves, the potential for "telephone game"-esque data loss and/or transmutation is a significant danger.<br />
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This talk will discuss the experience of Digital Commonwealth (http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/), a statewide digital repository currently in the process of being revamped, refactored, and redesigned by the Boston Public Library using the Hydra Framework. The repository, which aggregates data from over 20 institutions (some of which are themselves aggregators), is also undergoing a massive metadata cleanup effort as records are prepared to be ingested into the DPLA as one of the regional service hubs. Topics will include automated and manual processes for data crosswalking and cleanup, advanced OAI-PMH chops, and the implications of the (at this time still-emerging) metadata standards and APIs being created by the DPLA.<br />
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Every crosswalk, transformation, migration, harvest, or export/ingest of metadata requires informed decision making and precise attention to detail. This talk will provide insight into key decision points and potential quagmires, as well as a discussion of the challenges of dealing with heterogeneous data from a wide variety of institutions.<br />
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== Pay No More Than £3 // DIY Digital Curation ==<br />
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* Chris Fitzpatrick, World Maritime University, cf AT wmu DOT se<br />
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Are you a small library or archive? <br><br />
Do you feel you are being held back by limited technical resources?<br><br />
Tired of waiting around for the Google Books Library people to reply to your emails? <br><br />
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Join the club. Open-source software, hackerspaces, dirt cheap storage, cloud computing, and social media make it possible for any institution to start curating digitally. Today.<br />
This talk will cover some of the guerrilla tactics being employed to drag a small university's large collection into the internet age. <br />
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Topics will include: <br />
*Cheap and effective document scanning methods.<br />
*Valuable resources found at your local hackerspace / makerspace / fablab.<br />
*Metadata enrichment for the not-so-rich and NLP for the people.<br />
*Utilizing social media to crowdsource your collection building.<br />
*How to post-process, OCR, PDF, and ePub your documents using Free software.<br />
*Ways to build out a digital repository with no servers, code, or large 2-year grants required. (ok, maybe some code).<br />
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== IIIF: One Image Delivery API to Rule Them All ==<br />
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* Willy Mene, Stanford University Libraries, wmene AT stanford DOT edu<br />
* Stuart Snydman, Stanford University Libraries, snydman AT stanford DOT edu<br />
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The International Image Interoperability Framework was conceived of by a group of research and national libraries determined to achieve the holy grail of seamless sharing and reuse of images in digital image repositories and applications. By converging on common API’s for image delivery, metadata transmission and search, it is catalyzing the development of a new wave of interoperable image delivery software that will surpass the current crop of image viewers, page turners, and navigation systems, and in so doing give scholars an unprecedented level of consistent and rich access to image-based resources across participating repositories.<br />
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The IIIF Image API (http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api) specifies a web service that returns an image in response to a standard http or https request. The URL can specify the region, size, rotation, quality characteristics and format of the requested image. A URL can also be constructed to request basic technical information about the image to support client applications. The API could be adopted by any image repository or service, and can be used to retrieve static images in response to a properly constructed URL.<br />
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In this presentation we will review version 1 of the IIIF image api and validator, demonstrate applications by daring early adopters, and encourage widespread adoption.<br />
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== Data-Driven Documents: Visualizing library data with D3.js ==<br />
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* Bret Davidson, North Carolina State University Libraries, bret_davidson@ncsu.edu<br />
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Several JavaScript libraries have emerged over the past few years for creating rich, interactive visualizations using web standards. Few are as powerful and flexible as D3.js[1]. D3 stands apart by merging web standards with a rich API and a unique approach to binding data to DOM elements, allowing you to apply data-driven transformations to a document. This emphasis on data over presentation has made D3 very popular; D3 is used by several prominent organizations including the New York Times[2], GOV.UK[3], and Trulia[4].<br />
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Power usually comes at a cost, and D3 makes you pay with a steeper learning curve than many alternatives. In this talk, I will get you over the hump by introducing the core construct of D3, the Data-Join. I will also discuss when you might want to use D3.js, share some examples, and explore some advanced utilities like scales and shapes. I will close with a brief overview of how we are successfully using D3 at NCSU[5] and why investing time in learning D3 might make sense for your library.<br />
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*[1]http://d3js.org/<br />
*[2]http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/24/us/drought-crops.html<br />
*[3]https://www.gov.uk/performance/dashboard<br />
*[4]http://trends.truliablog.com/vis/pricerange-boston/<br />
*[5]http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/spaceassesstool<br />
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== ''n'' Characters in Search of an Author ==<br />
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* Jay Luker, IT Specialist, Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System, jluker@cfa.harvard.edu<br />
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When it comes to author names the disconnect between our metadata and what a user might enter into a search box presents challenges when trying to maximize both precision and recall [0]. When indexing a paper written by "Wäterwheels, A" a goal should be to preserve as much as possible the original information. However, users searching by author name may frequently omit the diaeresis and search for simply, "Waterwheels". The reverse of this scenario is also possible, i.e., your decrepit metadata contains only the ASCII, "Supybot, Zoia", whereas the user enters, "Supybot, Zóia". If recall is your highest priority the simple solution is to always downgrade to ASCII when indexing and querying. However this strategy sacrifices precision, as you will be unable to provide an "exact" search, necessary in cases where "Hacker, J" and "Häcker, J" really are two distinct authors.<br />
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This talk will describe the strategy ADS[1] has devised for addressing common and edge-case problems faced when dealing with author name indexing and searching. I will cover the approach we devised to not only the transliteration issue described above, but also how we deal with author initials vs. full first and/or middle names, authors who have published under different forms of their name, authors who change their names (wha? people get married?!). Our implementation relies on Solr/Lucene[2], but my goal is an 80/20 mix of high- vs. low-level details to keep things both useful and stackgnostic [3].<br />
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*[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall<br />
*[1] http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/<br />
*[2] http://lucene.apache.org/solr/<br />
*[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau<br />
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== But, does it all still work : Testing Drupal with simpletest and casperjs ==<br />
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* David Kinzer - Lead Developer, Jenkins Law Library, dkinzer@jenkinslaw.org<br />
* Chad Nelson - Developer, Jenkins Law Library, cnelson@jenkinslaw.org<br />
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Most developers know that they should be writing tests along with their code, but not every developer knows how or where to get started. This talk will walk through the nuts and bolts of the testing a medium-sized Drupal site with many integrated moving parts. We’ll talk about unit testing of individual functions with [http://www.simpletest.org/en/overview.html SimpleTest] (and how that has changed how we write functions), functional testing of the user interface with [http://casperjs.org/ casperjs]. We will discuss automating deployment with [http://www.phing.info/ phing], [http://drupal.org/project/drush drush], [http://jenkins-ci.org/ jenkins-ci] & github, which, combined with our tests, removes the “hold-your-breath” feeling before updating our live site. <br />
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== Relations, Recommendations and PostgreSQL ==<br />
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* William Denton, Web Librarian, York University, wdenton@yorku.ca<br />
* Dan Scott, Systems Librarian, Laurentian University, dscott@laurentian.ca<br />
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In 2012, a ragtag group of library hackers from various Ontario <br />
universities, funded with only train tickets and fueled with Tim Hortons <br />
coffee, assembled under the Scholars Portal banner to build a common <br />
circulation data repository and recommendation engine: the Scholars <br />
Portal Library Usage-based Recommendation Engine (SPLURGE). PostgreSQL, <br />
the emerging darling of the old-school relational database world, is the <br />
heart of SPLURGE, and the circulation data for Ontario's 400,000 <br />
university students is its blood. Two of the contributors to this effort explore the PostgreSQL features <br />
that SPLURGE uses to ease administration efforts, simplify application <br />
development, and deliver high performance results. If you don't use <br />
PostgreSQL for your data, you might want to try it after this <br />
presentation; if you already do, you'll pick up some new tips and tricks.<br />
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== A Cure for Romnesia: Site Story Web-Archiving ==<br />
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* Harihar Shankar, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, harihar@lanl.gov<br />
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The web changes constantly, erasing both inconvenient facts and<br />
fictions. At web-scale, preservation organizations cannot be expected<br />
to keep up by using traditional crawling, and they already miss many<br />
important versions. The cure for this is to capture the interactions<br />
between real browsers and the server, and push these into an archive<br />
for safe keeping rather than trying to guess when pages change.<br />
<br />
Every time the Apache Web Server sends data to a browser, SiteStory’s<br />
Apache Module also pushes this data to the SiteStory Web Archive. The<br />
same version of a resource will not be archived more than once, no<br />
matter how many times it has been requested. The resulting archive is<br />
effectively representative of a server's entire history, although<br />
versions of resources that are never requested by a browser will also<br />
never be archived.<br />
<br />
In this presentation I will give an overview of SiteStory, an<br />
Open-Source project written in Java that runs as an application under<br />
Tomcat 6 or greater. SiteStory’s Apache Module is written in C. I will<br />
also demonstrate the TimeMap tool that visualizes versions of a<br />
resource available in the SiteStory archive. The TimeMap tool is a<br />
Firefox browser extension that plots versions of a resource on a<br />
SIMILE timeline. Since the tools uses the Memento protocol, it can<br />
also display versions of resources available in Memento compliant web<br />
archives and content management systems.<br />
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== Practical Relevance Ranking for 10 million books. ==<br />
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* Tom Burton-West, University of Michigan Library, tburtonw@umich.edu<br />
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[http://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust Full-text search] indexes the full-text and metadata for over 10 million books. There are many challenges in tuning relevance ranking for a collection of this size. This talk will discuss some of the underlying issues, some of our experiments to improve relevance ranking, and our ongoing efforts to develop a principled framework for testing changes to relevance ranking.<br />
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Some of the topics covered will include:<br />
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* Length normalization for indexing the full-text of book-length documents<br />
* Indexing granularity for books<br />
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*Testing new features in Solr 4.0:<br />
**New ranking formulas that should work better with book-length documents: BM25 and DFR.<br />
**Grouping/Field Collapsing. Can we index 3 billion pages and then use Solr's field collapsing feature to rank books according to the most relevant page(s)?<br />
**Finite State Automota/Block Trees for storing the in-memory index to the index. Will this allow us to allow wildcards/truncation despite over 2 billion unique terms per index?<br />
<br />
*Relevance testing methodologies:Query log analysis, Click models, Interleaving, A/B testing, and Test collection based evaluation.<br />
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*Testing of a new high-performance storage system to be installed in early 2013. We will report on any tests we are able to run prior to conference time.<br />
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== Browser/Javascript Integration Testing with Ruby ==<br />
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* Jessie Keck, Stanford University, jkeck at stanford dot edu<br />
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It's near impossible to build a rich web application without javascript. We have a lot of great patterns to follow, such as progressive enhancement, to make sure our rich web applications are usable, accessible, and testable. However; when javascript is involved the possibility exists that bugs can be introduced that won't get caught by most unit and integration testing frameworks.<br />
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This is where Watir (pronounced water) comes in. Watir can be used with popular ruby testing frameworks like RSpec and Capybara. This talk will show how to use the combination of these tools to write RSpec tests using Watir to spin up an application in a variety of browsers, navigate the application, and make assertions about the page using Capybara.<br />
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Tests using Watir are written in ruby but they don't necessarily need to test ruby application. You can test any application that you can point a browser at, so there are a wide variety of potential uses for tests written with Watir.<br />
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== Immanentizing the Google ==<br />
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* Will Sexton, Duke University Libraries, will.sexton@duke.edu<br />
* Sean Aery, Duke University Libraries, sean.aery@duke.edu<br />
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We're using a "Google-as-a-Service" approach to reduce the complexity and cost of maintaining a structured-data discovery platform for digitized collections and other library-generated content. Our work picks up from a paper in the code4lib Journal by NCSU's Jason Ranollo [1], introducing the idea of embedded HTML microdata for library digital collections. We've extended our RDAa Lite/schema.org implementation by using Google Site Search to develop a customized interface. In our talk, we'll demonstrate how to set up an instance of Site Search, how to customize the display of results, and how to use the platform's filtering, sorting and other useful functions. We'll also report on our analysis of usage data, and discuss our strategy for scaling the system to support global site search in an upcoming library-wide CMS migration project.<br />
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[1] [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6400 "HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org", code4lib #16]<br />
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== Take Your Content and Shove It ==<br />
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* Eric Frierson, EBSCO Publishing, efrierson@ebscohost.com<br />
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Public services librarians have experimented getting out of the library. For example, the 'embedded librarian' model puts the librarian in class with students, offering help and advice throughout the semester at the point of need. Digital services have also found their way into virtual classrooms by way of links from the course management system (e.g., Blackboard, Moodle) and the occasional embedded search box that serves as a portal into the library's search solution.<br />
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With the release of discovery services and their associated APIs, we can do more. Rather than linking back to the library, we can take our resources and push them into the learning experience, allowing them to escape the library website silo altogether. Imagine a professor being able to search library resources and add items to their course website without ever leaving their CMS, or a student adding items to a folder that shows up in their campus dashboard. What if we could tie the use of library resources to student success in the classroom by leveraging user data from CMS tools? In this session, I will briefly describe how APIs might make these scenarios possible, but then facilitate a discussion on where else we could shove our resources. I hope to initiate a few development projects along these lines.<br />
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