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Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C, etc.

We want to bring the code{4}lib experience to the library community in the Maryland, Washington, D.C., and the great Commonwealth of Virginia area. Our hope is that meeting at the regional level will strengthen our local connections and develop more real world collaborative efforts.

We met quarterly throughout 2012, and continuing through 2014 and 2015. We've enjoyed a number of in depth technical presentations on a variety of topics. Meetings have been free to attend. Past host institutions have been the Smithsonian, GWU, and the Arlington Public Library. If you are in the area, please do feel free to drop in. If you are unable to make it in person, check with the hosts to see if distance participation is an option. We did have one distance person with us at one of the Smithsonian meet ups. :)

Next Meeting

Code4Lib MDCV 2015 meetup

August 11-12, 2015
McKeldin Library
Special Events Room (Room 6137)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

All registration, planning, and logistical information has been moved to the C4L MDC 2015 Meetup Page.

Last Meeting

Code4Lib DC 2014 unconference

August 11-12, 2014
Gelman Library
George Washington University

Connect with fellow code-interested cultural heritage professionals at two side-by-side events: a DC-area code4lib unconference and an introduction to programming workshop. As typical of unconferences, the content and activities of the day are determined by the attendees. Bring your ideas! We encourage everyone to consider giving a 10-20 minute talk, a lightning talk, lead a workshop, or organize another activity.

The two events are intended to provide an inclusive, welcoming environment, supported by the DLF Code of Conduct. The schedule includes opportunities for the attendees in each track to meet each other, including a plenary opening session, shared lightning talks, Day 2 afternoon unconference events, and combined coffee/lunch/snack breaks.

These events are sponsored by the Digital Library Federation and the GW Libraries.

Details, schedule, and registration: GW Libraries site.


20-minute talks - feel free to sign up

  • Dan Chudnov (GW Libraries), "7±2 things code4libbers should know about data science"
  • Mark Matienzo (Digital Public Library of America): "What We Learned From Aggregating Metadata for 7 Million Items"
  • Bohyun Kim (UMB HS/HSL), "Accepting Online Payment for Your Library and 'Stripe' as an Example"
  • Francis Kayiwa, "Monitoring Sucks"
  • David Anderson (National Library of Medicine): "Linked Data at NLM"
  • Ben Wallberg (UMD Libraries), "Research Services at UMD Libraries"
  • Ruth Kitchin Tillman (EADiva, NASA Goddard), "EAD 2002 to EAD3: the N big changes"


5-minute lightning talks signups - on site

  • see whiteboard in room 302

1.5 or 3 hour workshops - feel free to sign up

Practice jQuery, for those in workshop (1.5 or 3 hours)

Jason Griffey, Hacking on Hardware (3 hours):

Come and join me for an afternoon filled with circuits and silicon! We'll be learning the basics of breadboards and simple circuits, and will deconstruct and then rebuild our own input/output systems with Arduino. Learn the basics of programming to the Arduino...hardware will be provided, although you will need your own laptop (or are comfortable team learning with someone else). The goal of the workshop will be to give you enough knowledge that you can build a simple sensor to measure something in your environment (noise, temperature, light, moisture) and to make you more comfortable with working with hardware. This session is designed for beginners who do not have experience with circuits, breadboards, Arduino, or other aspects of hardware hacking.

If you are planning to attend this hardware hacking afternoon, you will need to install a couple of things before you arrive to save time. Please download and install both the Arduino IDE 1.0.5 and the FTDI Drivers (serial drives for the Sparkfun Redboard), linked below. These will allow your laptop to communicate with the board.

Arduino IDE

FTDI Drivers


Kevin Ford, Gettting Started with the Bibframe Editor (1.5 hours):

Learn about, download, locally install, and tinker with the nascent Bibframe Editor (bfe) (https://github.com/lcnetdev/bfe). This workshop will provide an introduction to the Bibframe Editor, which, despite its name, is basically a generic, web-based RDF editor. All forms are dynamically generated from specially defined JSON-formatted Bibframe Profiles, which you can customize with your own classes and properties to meet your needs. `bfe` also ships with a number of "look ups," which provide typeahead functionality that dynamically search remote value vocabularies, such as Names and Subjects in ID.LOC.GOV, and allow you to choose a value from a suggested set of values (you can also create your own look ups). After a brief introduction about `bfe`, we'll work to install it on your own laptop. We'll then learn a little about profiles by modifying a few existing ones. Time permitting, we'll look at creating a new "look up."

Preparing ahead of time?

Essential: node.js OR Python 2.7 (Do please try to have these installed before the workshop, otherwise we'll spend a minute or two installing node.js.)

Optional: Git

Patrick Murray-John, Omeka under the hood (1.5 hours)

Previous Meetings

September 13, 2012

When: Thursday, September 13th 2012 4:30-5:30p meet, 5:30p-? Tasty beverages
Where:Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 10th and Constitution Ave. NW, Washington DC 20004 Room CEG 15, Library Conference Room. Google Map Please meet near the totem pole in the Constitution Ave Lobby
How: Nearest METRO stops are Federal Triangle on Blue/Orange, Archives/Navy Memorial on Yellow/Green or Metro Center (everything else.)

June 27, 2012

'Wednesday, 27 June, 2012 4:30-6 Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

April 10, 2012

Tuesday, 10 April, 2012 4-5 at The George Washington University Gelman Library in Foggy Bottom, DC 2130 H Street NW Washington DC 20052

January 10, 2012

This meeting will be an ad hoc meeting for code{4}libMDC. If you have any bril ideas on how to fill the time, feel free to post them here. If no one posts anything, we'll enjoy an open exchange of ideas and updates on each other's work. All are welcome to attend. We hope to see you there! Tuesday, 10 January, 2012 10:00AM to Noon at The George Washington University Gelman Library in Foggy Bottom, DC 2130 H Street NW Washington DC 20052

September 13, 2011

Tuesday, 13 September, 2011 10-11.20ish at Arlington Public Library Central Branch in Arlington, VA

August 5, 2009

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 9:00am to 4:30pm at National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, MD

This meeting will be a joint meeting between code{4}libMDC and the DC Fedora Users Group.

April 3, 2009

Code4LibMDC had it's first meeting on Friday April 3, at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville MD

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