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Welcome to code4lib Code4Lib BC! Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.
If you're interested in hosting, please [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mh8haGBziQHiBkG_0byNgIEPxWIsBjKAXOss0cE9fJs/edit?usp== sharing take a read over our Planner'''First Annual Code4lib BC Event''' ==s Guide].
== '''WhenTenth Code4Lib BC Unconference 2025''': November 28 and 29, 2013==
This year'''Cost''': $20s C4LBC will be held in Vancouver, BC, and hosted by Emily Carr.
=== What'''Register here''': https://code4libbc2013.eventbrite.ca/ 2013-11-21: We are full at 80 people but the waitlist is open.s it all about? ===
It'''What''': It’s s a 2 -day unconference! A - a participant-driven meeting featuring lightning talks in the mornings, hackfest in the afternoons, with coffee, tea bringing together a diverse and snacks provided. Lightning talks are brief presentations which are typically 5-10 minutes in length (15 minutes is the maximum) on topics related to open community of library technologies: current projects, tips developers and tricks, or hacks non-developers engaging in the works. Hackfest is an opportunity to bring participants together in an ad hoc fashion for a shorteffective, yet sustained period of collaborative problem -solving, software development and fun. In advance of the event, we will gather project ideas in a form available through our wiki and registration pages. Each afternoon the code4libBC participants will review and discuss the proposals, break into groups, and work on some technology regardless of the projectstheir department or background.
* '''WhyWhat's included''': Why not? code4libBC is a group of dynamic library technology practitioners throughout the province who want to build new relationships as much as develop new software solutions to problems.room, coffee/tea, wifi, power
* '''Tag d'hashWhat to bring''': #c4lbcyour ideas and enthusiasm.
* '''Code of Conduct''': As a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the [http://bit.ly/coc4lib Code4Lib Code of Conduct], which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment. Please see the [http://bit.ly/coc4lib Code of Conduct] for further details.
''Breakout Session Ideas''Lightning Talk Proposals * Struggling Through Burnout (esp in IT); Getting Our DIY Ethic Back (Daniel Lerch)* GenAI Critical Literacy workshop demo + discussion (Michelle Ng) (20 person limit)* Knowledge management and HackfestM365/Breakout SuggestionsSP migration headaches (Michelle Ng)* Protecting website content created by libraries and server resources from Gen AI (Desy Wahyuni) ===Food=== Coffee/tea and light snacks (think: pastries, granola bars, fruit) will be available at the venue. Attendees are encouraged to explore the wide range of food and beverage options nearby. Local organizers have provided a few recommendations below. If you have dietary restrictions/preferences, feel free to ask for specific suggestions! ====Coffee & baked goods====* ECU's Caf - on campus* Nemesis coffee - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/MLD3mahZS29Z6bYMA 555 Great Northern Wy]* Kafka’s Coffee Roasting and Bakery - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/y5KRY7wp8nHVHqpG8 577 Great Northern Wy]* Kranky Cafe in Mount Pleasant - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/c5zutNWHf9XiESsx7 228 E 4th Ave]* Tim Hortons - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/k78BjheVVKBFtxCR6 889 Great Northern Wy]* L'Atelier Patisserie - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/K79rrCYwFWdJx2rz9 599 E Broadway] (15 min. walk) ====Meals====* Steve's Poké Bar - [https: Submit them //maps.app.goo.gl/DBDWoY4T5xZCTV656 891 Great Northern Wy]* Rotating Food Trucks - [https://docsmaps.googleapp.comgoo.gl/formsFDeCRQk9R3wEyKcdA 577 Carolina St.]* ECU Ramen bar - on campus, level 1 near the east exit* Chai Wagon - [https:/d/1NVEGsJZvqNLyqxATdYvNonGuPmlDAFOJnmaps.app.goo.gl/FXfday9yK4aCMgyE6 196 E 2nd Ave] (12 min. walk)* ECU Caf, Nemesis, Kafka's, and Kranky cafe also have lunch food* [https://vancouversoupcompany.com/ Vancouver Soup Company] -R2vGpIvWg[https://maps.app.goo.gl/viewform here8ehwmwD1NoogsMR47 292 E 1st Ave](9 min. walk)
=== Schedule ===
'''''Please note that all times are PT (Vancouver, Canada).''''' ==== Day 1 : Thursday , October 16 ==== {|class="wikitable"| 98:00 30 || Welcome & AnnouncementsVenue opens
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| 9:00 || Lightning Talks* Paul Joseph - Opening Talk* Linda Woodcock - RDA: 10 Things* Mark Jordan - [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1015702/linked_to/Making%20TGM%20Terms%20Linkable.pdf Linked Data in SFU's Editorial Cartoons Collection]* Marcus Emmanuel Barnes - [http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusBarnes/code4-lib-bc-2013-lightening-talk SFU Library's METS-Bagger Tool]* Misty De Meo - Archivematica Format Policy Registry (FPR)* Cynthia Ng - [http://t.co/vIHCuuGExZ Shifting Perspectives: From Disability Accommodation to Universal Design]* Stefan Khan-Kernahan - Course Reserves at UBC* May Chan - [http://ow.ly/rhk3L Hackfests for the Uninitiated]Welcome and announcements
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| 109:30 15 || Coffee breakIcebreaker activity
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| 109:45 30 || Schedule JamLightning talks* Remember When We Were Excited About Virtual Worlds? Let’s Try That Again - James Fournie* Sustainable Local Development; or, Two PHP Scripts in a Trench Coat - John Durno* User Experience: Case study plus discussion of a planned BCLA interest group - Janis McKenzie & Mark Goodwin* [https://cynthiang.ca/2025/10/16/presentation-how-to-stay-web-accessible-applying-wcag-2-1-2-2/ Making the Web Accessible: Putting WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 into Practice] - Cynthia Ng
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| 1110:00 30 || Breakout Sessions* Connecting Public Services and Library Data (NE side of room) with Janis* [[Creating_a_toolkit/process_for_collaborative,_grassroots_archiving_of_significant,_small_BC_websites_using_DIY_tools]] with Scott (NW side of room)]* Omeka Plugin with John and Jon (South Central side of room)* accessibility https://docs.google.com/document/d/13zM-Q84eYJqvfLdYWU8PkAf_z8RbeJC_iskPB5QlSo8/edit* Learn more about UBC'c Reserves Project* How to build in accessibilityBreak
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| 1 Hour 10:45 || Lunch Lightning talks (On Your Owncontinued) [http* Challenges of Identity and Access Management Policies and Documentation - Caitlin Lindsay * Manipulating MARC://eg2013.sitka.bclibraries.ca/socialIndigenous Cataloguing Beyond the Standards -events/#thursdayTaya Jardine & Christina Needham* Developing introductory, interactive workshop modules on GenAI Critical Literacy -lunch Suggestions]Michelle Ng
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| 311:15 45 || BreakECU campus tour / Lunch!
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| 31:15 || Breakout sessions * Manipulating MARC (redux) - facilitators: Taya Jardine & Christina Needham* Digital sovereignty, the surveillance state, & protection of privacy - facilitator: John Durno* Cookin' with VR - facilitator: James Fournie |-| 2:30 || Break|-| 2:45 || Breakout Reportssessions (continued)* UX breakout! - facilitators: Janis McKenzie & Mark Goodwin* Are all the ULs hanging out without us? Consortial LSP planning and rumours - facilitator: Tamarack Hockin
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| 4:00 || Breakout reports|-| 5:00 || Socialevent at Red Truck Beer Company [https://maps.app.goo.gl/VH93xQZ1nJzvziBZ8 295 E 1st Ave]
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==== Day 2 : Friday , October 17 ===={|class="wikitable"| 9:00 || AnnouncementsWelcome and announcements
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| 9:15 || Lightning Talkstalks* Mark Jordan - [httpsTransforming Unstructured Data in a Knowledge Base://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1015702/linked_to/docr_smd%20%40%20%23c4lbc.pdf DOCR/SMD] [https://github.com/mjordan/docrExploring the Potential of RAG and LLMs at SFU Library -smd Source code]Ian Song* Peter Tyrrell Consent Not Required: (AI) Technology as Connection - Parsing PDF into Various Formats* John Durno - Uploading to Internet Archive via API* Colleen Bell - Integrating ERM Coco Chen & Libguides ContentRebecca Ardron* James MacGregor Building AI Literacy in the Public Library - PKP Article Level Metrics with OJS and OMPJaclyn Fong* Jonathan Schatz - The Story of BC Libraries' IT Environments* <strike>Sarah Sutherland - RFP Evaluation Process</strike>* Calvin Mah / Todd Holbrook - SFU Defending Library Services Against AI Scrapers - Hours DatabaseScott Leslie
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| 10:30 || Coffee breakBreak
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| 11:00 || Breakout SessionsLightning talks (continued)* New bibliographic environment Working with May APIs: Flows and MarkRunner in Postman - Olga Kalachinskaya* Engaging digital asset viewer* library hours tool & api* UBC IT Reorg by Paul[https://github.com/telezoic/SuperDuperPDF/blob/main/superduperPDF.pdf Bulk DOI generation in DSpace with the Super-Duper-App!] - Daniel Sifton* Learn more about ArchivematicaBuilding an assignment planner on Playlab - Joyce Wong
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| 1 Hour 11:45 || Lunch (On Your Own) [http://eg2013.sitka.bclibraries.ca/social-events/#thursday-lunch Suggestions]
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| 31:15 00 || BreakBreakout sessions* Finalized day-of based on attendee interests. See list of proposals above or [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeP7AZMzRzI_sLUnaLJ9mu0gvayJ0gU2mnScjMPvlQ9DFfCZw/viewform?usp=header submit your own].
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| 32:30 || Breakout ReportsBreak
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| 2:45 || Breakout sessions (continued)* Finalized day-of based on attendee interests. See list of proposals above or [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeP7AZMzRzI_sLUnaLJ9mu0gvayJ0gU2mnScjMPvlQ9DFfCZw/viewform?usp=header submit your own].|-| 4:00 || End of DayBreakout session reports / Who wants to host Code4Lib BC 2026?
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=== '''Lightning Talk Proposals''' Sponsors === John Durno, University of Victoria* Filling up the Internet Archive using their S3-like API. UVic recently uploaded 750G of old newspapers and metadata (over 15,000 issues) to the IA via their API, based on Amazon's S3, by way of a simple python script making use of the boto library and a wrapper supplied by one of the IA developers. The API proved surprisingly robust, and I'd like to spread the word. Peter Tyrrell, Andornot* Setting up Apache Solr to index and search over multiple source types: database and fielded data, Excel/CSV, scanned mags and newspapers, PDFs, word processor documents, websites, geolocations, etc. Focus will be on schema and DataImportHandler considerations, plus amusing anecdotes as time allows.* Another option would be: scripts that parse a PDF into a TIF, JPG, TXT, and positional XML per page via djvulibre and imagemagick libraries. Make 'em ready for indexing and flexible display.* I could maybe go over how to (and how NOT to) represent and display hierarchical (cough, archival) data in an Apache Solr index. Mostly this would be a juicy rant about how just how ruddy difficult I found it. Stefan Khan-Kernahan, The University of British Columbia* UBC is launching an in-house product for managing course reserves that helps streamline workflows between faculty & library, within library staff (e.g copyright control etc.), and library & student, which I'd like to present on, the content of which would be on completed modules to date and learning lessons for others Marcus Emmanuel Barnes, Simon Fraser University* Normalizing existing digitized content into standardized packages for robust long-term management. A report on SFU Library's METS-Bagger tool, with a discussion of the benefits, design principles used for the packaging specification, and potential next steps. Colleen Bell, University of the Fraser Valley* I've been using PHP, JSON, and Libguides widgets to integrate Libguides content into our ERM and ERM content into our Libguides. This is particularly useful for libraries using SFU's researcher suite, but could provide ideas for anyone, since the code generated by the PHP can be displayed in any web page. Mark Jordan, Simon Fraser University* Libraries are realizing the potential for both exposing their locally managed content as Linked Data and for consuming Linked Data. One of the types of local data that offers a lot of promise for leveraging Linked Data's capabilities is the controlled subject terms applied to local digital collections. I would like to demonstrate how I've enriched SFU's Editorial Cartoons Collection's descriptive metadata with URIs from http://id.loc.gov, paying particular attention to those from the Thesaurus for Graphic Material.* Explanation and demo of docr/smd, a distributed Optical Character Recognition platform designed to use smartphones and tablets to do the OCR. May Chan, Burnaby Public Library* Hackfests for the Uninitiated. For all sorts of reasons, hackfests can be intimidating to first-timers and especially to those who have little or no programming ability. To encourage those new to this form of collaborative learning, my LT will relate key a-ha! moments from my first hackfest experience, especially some difficult truths learned.* The Code4Lib Conference Gender and Minority Scholarships. One of the ways Code4Lib supports gender and cultural diversity is to offer conference scholarships to women, transgendered persons and persons of ethnic or aboriginal descent. As a way to encourage potential BC applicants, this LT will give some nuanced background on the scholarship program and application process. Calvin Mah / Todd Holbrook, SFU Library* SFU Library - Hours Database. The Library Hours Database developed by Todd Holbrook at SFU Library is a tool for managing library hours. The SFU Library hours page is generated by this database: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/hours Sarah Sutherland, Canadian Legal Information Institute* I would like to discuss the process involved in evaluating the responses to requests for proposals for technology projects. There are often several very good submissions once the basic requirements are met, and at that point it becomes more about the style of the vendor and what kind of project it is. We recently went through this process, so I will use some anonymized examples from our process to illustrate my talk. Cynthia Ng, CILS @ Langara College* Shifting Perspectives: From Disability Accommodation to Universal Design<br>Too often we design for the "average" user and then tack on accommodations for those with disabilities, but there is no "average" user to speak of, and we all use "assistive" technology. With this presentation, I hope to help shift the way we think about library services and their delivery. Linda Woodcock, Kwantlen Polytechnic University* RDA : 10 Things. Walks through an RDA record focusing on new data elements and changes from AACR2. Will talk about benefits to user and possibilities for the future use of new data. Jonathan Schatz, BC Libraries Cooperative* This summer a colleague and I toured three library federations BC as "field librarians". These treks were part of a unique project to survey the IT environments of the Co-op's member libraries. In addition to sharing the data with the libraries as actionable status reports, we are developing an app to track all this member data for our support team, allowing for a high-level snapshot of Sitka libraries. I want to tell a quick story about what sorts of configurations and solutions we saw out there, what seem to work, what to avoid and perhaps some DIY tips for technology management for libraries with fewer resources. James MacGregor, Simon Fraser University Library* Public Knowledge Project has been working with PLOS to implement article level metrics within OJS and OMP. We are past the initial development stage, with a number of implementations live in production environments. We will discuss the available toolset, and future plans for it. Misty De Meo, Artefactual Systems* Archivematica Format Policy Registry (FPR)<br>Archivematica is an open-source digital preservation platform.<br>Starting with version 1.0, Archivematica has made much of the standard behaviour of Archivematica configurable. The FPR provides a database of the recognized formats in Archivematica along with the rules used to control how files are identified, how metadata is extracted, and how files are normalized, all of which is customizable by users without changing the Archivematica source code. This lightning talk would go over the FPR and what it enables in Archivematica, as well as the open-source FPR administrator app.* FITS performance optimizations<br>Archivematica has begun work on performance improvements to reduce the performance overhead of the FITS file identification tool in digital preservation workflows. This lightning talk would go over the major performance bottlenecks discovered and discuss the ways in which Archivematica is working to improve them. === '''Hackfest/Breakout Suggestions''' === Requests, but facilitator needed:* Want to put us where the user is - discuss* quick github demo: possibly adding yourself as a supporter of Code of Conduct* collaboratively improve an open source project's crappy documentation* learn more about archivematica* want to hear about UBC Reserves John Durno, University of Victoria* Develop an Omeka module that uses the Internet Archive to host video and audio content, essentially using Omeka as the front end user interface while taking advantage of the IA's media delivery/streaming capabilities. I envision two components: content and metadata would be uploaded via Omeka's admin interface. The IA's media player would be embedded in the public interface for content delivery. Stefan Khan-Kernahan, The University of British Columbia* Building a more engaging digital asset viewer than what is provided by ContentDM/competitors. Details: current digital asset presentation (e.g Content DM), whilst providing all the ""necessary"" information for the user (image + metadata etc.) simply lack in user engagement. If universities are expecting to build interest in these collections among current/future students, they need to cater for a more involved experience. I am proposing an image viewer for digital assets that allows tagging/hotspot that trigger supplementary information beyond metadata (e.g. video explanations of areas on maps, how they came to be etc) Karen J. Nelson, Capilano Unversity Library* Could we have a quickie: 1. FRBR explanation. 2. ditto data exchange. 3. ditto linked data. 4. bibframe. 5. WEMI language Jonathan Jacobsen, Andornot* I'm working on a virtual exhibit project using Omeka right now, so I second the idea of an Omeka breakout session. Would love to connect with some other Omeka users/developers. In particular, to discuss the Solr plug-in.
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