2013 preconference proposals

Proposals close Friday, November 9 at 11:59pm ET.

Spaces available: 4+ Rooms

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

=== Talk Title ===
 
* Presenter/Leader, affiliation (optional), and email address (mandatory!)
* Second Presenter/Leader, affiliation, email address, if applicable

Description.

Full Day

Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp

This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.

If we run out of topics, we will pay homage to the project by testing patches for Drupal 8. It is easy, and we will show you how to do this invaluable task.

We will attempt to get one of the local Drupal uber-ninjas to do the keynote and give us some guidance.

• Contact Cary Gordon, cgordon@chillco.com or
• Charlie Morris, NCSU Libraries, cdmorris@ncsu.edu

Half Day Morning

Open space session

• Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

The rest of code4libcon is pretty well structured these days; come in the morning for a few hours of old-school open space technology unconference. Bring a rough talk or idea you want to share or questions you have or something you want to learn about or discuss with other people, and be ready to tell us about it. Use it as extra prep time for your upcoming prepared or lightning talk if you want. We'll plan the morning out a little bit at the beginning, but not too much. What we do will be up to the people there in the room.

If there's interest, we could start with a "welcome to code4lib" introductory session for newcomers.

Delivery services

Contact: Ted Lawless, tlawless at brown edu. Please contact if you have questions or topic suggestions.

Are you interested in making it easier for users to obtain copies of known items? Do you feel your OpenURL and Interlibrary Loan software could be streamlined? This pre-conference workshop will focus on providing services that deliver content to users. Discovery systems are doing a better job of exposing library holdings but there's still a lot of work to do actually get the content in the users hands.

Possible topics/activities include:

• panel discussion of what some libraries have done in this area
• comparisons of different approaches to addressing delivery
• overview of tools available
• sharing of strategies and experiences
• time to work with and review open source code in this area

Resources and background information:

• What-is-Umlaut-anyway
• Hacking 360 Link: A hybrid approach
• Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API
• Focusing on Delivery

Half Day Afternoon

Data Visualization Hackfest

• Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in data visualization? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's "Where Librarians Go To Hack" and the page for the Access 2010 Hackfest. We propose a half-day hackfest with a focus on visualization library data -- think stuff like library catalog data, access/circulation statistics, etc. Here's how it works, roughly:

- we'll (you'll!) do lightning tutorials for some data visualization tools, toolkits (R? d3js? ?), datasets.
- we'll separate into groups and hack on stuff.
- at the end of the day, we'll present our progress.

Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable!

• Duration: half-day
• Contact: Chris Beer (cabeer at stanford.edu)

Half Day Evening

Solr 4 In Depth

The long awaited and much anticipated Solr 4 has been released! It's a really big deal. There are so many improvements, it makes the head spin. This session will cover the major feature improvements from Lucene's flexible indexing and scoring API up through SolrCloud in a digestable half-day format.

• Duration: half-day
• Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidworks.com)
• Note: I put this under "Half Day Evening" only because I didn't want to conflict with the other great half day sessions already proposed here. However it makes the most sense to arrange the sessions is fine with me though.