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2010 Preconference Proposals

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* '''OCLC Web Services Boot Camp and Lightning Talk Demos''' (Contact/Responsible person: Roy Tennant, tennantr@oclc.org) - full  Full day thorough coverage of a suite of APIs and the essentials about the underlying technologies (e.g., SRU, CQL, Atom, OpenSearch, etc.) to get you going right away. Handouts on each service covered will be distributed that outline the essential information about each service.
There will also be time for you to show off what you've done to mashup library data in the past (not limited only to OCLC services), in a 5-10 minute presentation to help inspire ideas.
* '''Koha Hackfest/Best-practices meeting''' (Contact/Responsible persons: Brendan Gallagher <info@bywatersolutions.com> and Ian Walls <Ian.Walls@med.nyu.edu>) - full or half day - working on Koha bugs and enhancements, discussing best practices to solve common workflow and technical issues, developing helper scripts for data migration, connection to external systems, etc.
 
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* '''Web Services & Widgets''' - Organizers: Godmar Back & Annette Bailey (Contact/Responsible person: Godmar Back (gback@cs.vt.edu) - a half day interactive workshop that explains how to create practical web services and widgets for libraries. The focus will be on creating web services for and integrating widgets into the services your library has already implemented and deployed (OPAC, Resolver, etc.). We will explain what is possible and how to do it, particularly for systems where librarians have limited or no control of the back-end. This workshop will be targeted at beginning-level programmers. Technologies covered will include advanced JavaScript/jQuery and JSON.
 
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* '''Evergreen Development Round table''' -- Organizer: Bill Erickson (erickson @ esilibrary.com) - Half day. Update on development, plans for future development, clearing paths for community involvement, documentation project, what's up with acquisitions, general Q & A, and more. As code4lib heads South again, Evergreen developers, users, and advocates will be there to meet it. The discussion will be a mix of general and technical.
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