2014 preconference proposals

Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals

Proposals will be accepted through December 6th, 2013.

Please fill out your proposal in the following format. If you are interested in attending a proposed pre-conference add your name to the list for that proposal.

Pitch Format:

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NAME

"Full-Day|Half-Day" [PREFERRED TIME]

Description

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Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp

Full Day

• Contact Cary Gordon, cgordon@chillco.com

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.

This event is open to the library community. There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).

resources to help you learn drupal

Interested in Attending:

All Day

Renna Tuten

Open Refine Hackfest

"Half-Day"

• Contact Chad Nelson, chadbnelson@gmail.com

Open Refine is a powerful open source tool for wrangling messy data that can also be used to help in the creation of Linked Data via the Reconciliation API. It is possible to write reconciliation services against API's, like the VIAF service or, even just against local authority files for helping maintain authority control

The session would first introduce Open Refine, then walk through building a reconciliation service, and the rest of the session would be a hackfest where we build new reconciliation services for public consumption or local use.

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Responsive Design Hackfest

"Half-Day [Afternoon]"

• Contact Jim Hahn, University of Illinois, jimfhahn@gmail.com
• Contact David Ward, University of Illinois, dh-ward@illinois.edu

This structured hackfest will give attendees an opportunity to explore methods to create responsive mobile apps using the Bootstrap framework [1]and a set of APIs for accessing library data. We will start with an API template for creating space-based mobile tools that draw from work coming out of the IMLS funded Student/Library Collaborative grant [2]. Available APIs will include a room reservation template and codebase for implementing at any campus and the set of Minrva catalog APIs generating JSONP [3].

Hosts will give a brief report of a study on student hacking projects and interests in mobile library apps that are the basis for the templates utilized in this Hackathon. By the end of the pre-conference attendees will have a sample responsive mobile web app in Bootstrap 3 to bring back to their campus which can plug into their site-based content.

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Intro to Blacklight

"Half-Day [Morning]"

• Contact: Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu
• TA: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

This session will be walk-through of the architecture of Blacklight, the community, and an introduction to building a Blacklight-based application. Each participant will have the opportunity to build a simple Blacklight application, and make basic customizations, while using a test-driven approach.

For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ). We will also send out some brief instructions beforehand for those that would like to setup their environments to follow along and get Blacklight up and running on their local machines.

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1. Megan Kudzia
2. Bret Davidson

Blacklight Hackfest

"Half-Day [Afternoon]"

• Contact Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu

This afternoon hackfest is both a follow-on to the Intro to Blacklight morning session to continue building Blacklight-based applications, and also an opportunity for existing Blacklight contributors and members of the Blacklight community to exchange common patterns and approaches into reusable gems or incorporate customizations into Blacklight itself.

For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ).

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RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails

"Half-Day" [morning]

• Contact Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com

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! RailsBridge is a friendly place to get together and learn how to write some code.

RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like Blacklight and Hydra.

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Managing Projects: Or I'm in charge, now what?

Full-Day

Contact:

• Rosalyn Metz, rosalynmetz@gmail.com
• Becky Yoose, yoosebec@grinnell.edu

This will be a full day session on project management. We'll cover

• Kicking off the Project -- project lifecycle, project constraints, scoping/goals, stakeholders, assessment
• Planning the Project -- project charters, work breakdown structures, responsibilities, estimating time, creating budgets
• Executing the Project -- status meeting, status reports, issue management
• Finishing the Project -- achieving the goal, post mortems, project v. product

This is a revival of rosy1280's LITA Forum Pre-Conference, but better (because iteration is good)

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Fail4Lib 2014

Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]

Contacts:

• Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu
• Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu

The task of design (and the work that we do as library coders) is intimately tied to failure. Failures, both big and small, motivate us to create and improve. Failures are also occasionally the result of our work. Understanding and embracing failure, encouraging enlightened risk-taking, and seeking out opportunities to fail and learn are essential to success in our field. 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 feared.

The schedule may include the following:

• Case studies. We'll look at some classic failures from the literature: What can we learn from the mistakes of others?
• Confessionals, for those willing to share. Talk about your own experiences with rough starts, labor pains, and doomed projects in your own work: What can we learn from our own (and each others') failures?
• Group therapy. Let's talk about how to deal with risk management, failed projects, experimental endeavors, and more: How can we make ourselves, our colleagues, and our organizations more fault tolerant? How do we make sure we fail as productively as possible?

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1. Bret Davidson

CLLAM @ code4lib

(Computational Linguistics for Libraries, Archives and Museums)

Full Day

Contacts:

• Douglas W. Oard (primary), oard (at) umd.edu
• Corey Harper, corey (dot) harper (at) nyu.edu
• Robert Sanderson, azaroth42 (at) gmail.com
• Robert Warren, rwarren (at) math.carleton.ca

We will hack at the intersection of diverse content from Libraries, Archives and Museums and bleeding edge tools from computational linguistics for slicing and dicing that content. Did you just acquire the email archives of a startup company? Maybe you can automatically build an org chart. Have you got metadata in a slew of languages? Perhaps you can search it all using one query. Is name authority control for e-resources getting too costly? Let’s see if entity linking techniques can help. These are just a few teasers.

There’ll be plenty of content and tools supplied, but please bring your own [data] too -- you’ll hack with it in new ways throughout the day. We’ll get started with some lightning talks on what we’ve brought,then we’ll break up into groups to experiment and work on the ideas that appeal. Three guaranteed outcomes: you’ll walk away with new ideas, new tools, and new people you’ll have met.

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1. Devon Smith
2. Kevin S. Clarke

Using Hydra to manage geospatial data and maps

Half-day [Afternoon]

• Contact: Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
• Moderator: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

Do you have digitized maps, GIS datasets like Shapefiles, aerial photography, etc., all of which you want to integrate into your digital repository? In this workshop, we will discuss how Hydra can provide discovery, delivery, and management services for geospatial assets, as well as solicit questions about your own GIS projects. We aim to help answer the following questions you might have about putting geospatial data into your Hydra-based digital library:

• What are the types of geospatial data?
• How to dive into Hydra?
• How to model geospatial holdings with Hydra?
• How to discover and view geospatial data?
• How to build a geospatial data infrastructure?
• What are common approaches and problems?

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