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Sign up for Lightning Talks!!

Lightning talks are scheduled on all three days of the conference. A lightning talk is a fast-paced 5 minute talk on a topic of your choosing. Sign-ups for lightning talks will open at 10 am on Tuesday, February 7, immediately following the first keynote.

Mark Jason Dominus has a nice page about lightning talks, which includes this summary of why you might want to do one:

Maybe you've never given a talk before, and you'd like to start small. For a Lightning Talk, you don't need to make slides, and if you do decide to make slides, you only need to make three.

Maybe you're nervous and you're afraid you'll mess up. It's a lot easier to plan and deliver a five minute talk than it is to deliver a long talk. And if you do mess up, at least the painful part will be over quickly.

Maybe you don't have much to say. Maybe you just want to ask a question, or invite people to help you with your project, or boast about something you did, or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up thirty minutes.

You might also like Mark Fowler's's Advice for Giving a Lightning Talk.

LIGHTNING TALK SIGNUPS OPEN AT 10 AM PST ON FEBRUARY 7

Tuesday, 4:10-5:10pm [12 slots]

Enter Name -- Title of Talk

1. Al Cornish / XTF in 300 seconds
2. Makoto OKamoto / saveMLAK - Aid activities for the Great East Japan Earthquake through collaboration via Wiki (Slide)
3. Andrew Nagy / Vendors Suck
4. akorphan - Heat maps... not just for input analysis
5. Gabriel Farrell / ElasticSearch
6. nettie lagace - identifying and solving interoperability problems through cooperation
7. Eric Larson -- Finding images in book page images PDF
8. adam wead / Blacklight at the Rock Hall
9. Kelley McGrath -- FRBR, facets, moving images
10. Bohyun Kim -- Web Usability in terms of words
11. Simon Spero. - Restriction Classes, Bitches
12. Cynthia Ng / Processing & ProcessingJS

Wednesday, 4:00-5:00pm [12 slots]

Enter Name -- Title of Talk

1. Scott Hanrath -- Zotero and SHERPA/RoMEO API mashup
2. Peter Murray -- Introducing FOSS4LIB.org
3. Mark Matienzo -- I've Got Good News
4. Mike Durbin -- Edge Cases - Digitizing and delivering undescribed items in EAD
5. David Walker -- Basic Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) Protocol
6. Ryuuji Yoshimoto -- Introducing CALIL.JP, scraping/mashup all of OPACs in JAPAN! PDF
7. Kåre Fiedler Christiansen (@kaarefc) -- Chucking all the software components in a library together to present recorded radio and tv PDF
8. Joel Richard -- introducing Macaw metadata collection tool
9. Rachel Frick - LOD-LAM Incubator Project
10. Mao Tsunekawa - Project Shizuku : Making Friends in libraries PDF
11. Keith Folsom - Archivists' Toolkit Database Server on an Amazon EC2 Instance
12. Rebecca Jones -- call for services

Thursday, 10:15-11:00am [9 slots]

Enter Name -- Title of Talk

1. David Uspal -- Project Grab Bag
2. Robert Haschart -- Adding publicly-accessible Hathi Trust items to your Solr-based discovery system.
3. Jeremy Nelson -- Aristotle a Django based Discovery Layer
4. Dennis Schafroth - Turbo MARC in YAZ Library PDF
5. Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku -- Recovery of Minamisanriku Town Library from Tsunami Disaster (Slide)
6. Hillel Arnold -- Occupy Wall Street documentation
7. Erik Hetzner -- Strategy for c4l voting
8. Ed Summers -- jobs.code4lib.org
9. Christopher Spalding -- Search in a Blender

If only we had more time

1. Tim Shearer - Mass Digitization Update: EAD, Ajax, and CONTENTdm
2. Jason Clark - BookMeUp (Book Suggestions App) http://bit.ly/zRmmvA