NEC4L

Welcome to the wiki home of the New England "chapter" of Code4Lib.

My friends, let's get something started, eh?

1st Meeting (BPL)

When & Where

Date & Time: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 9:00am-5:00pm

Location: Boston Public Library, McKim Building, McKim Conference Room

What?

The current plan is to start the day with presentations and/or lightning talks. When we run out of those we can then break out into groups to discuss and experiment according to interests. Use the sections below for general ideas of things to do or actual topics or projects you'd be willing to present on.

Suggest some Topics

Ripping open the guts of a particular lib app (by the author) as an architecture or implementation How-To (or How-Not-To) session?

Lightning (or Longer) Talks

Scraping article metadata using the CiteULike parsers - JayL
Update on code4lib 2009 conference planning - Jean Rainwater & Birkin Diana
Extending Zotero: Citation Style Language - Jodi Schneider
Semantic Web for Libraries or Microformats - Jodi Schneider
Semi-controlled-folksonomic-tagging-vocabulary: Encouraging Useful Metadata Contributions - Chris Beer & Courtney Michael
Common Knowledge at LibraryThing: Why Star Wars geeks are better than catalogers (for Star Wars stuff) - Tim Spalding
A Vocabulary Browser in Solr, SKOS, and XForms - Michael Klein

Getting there

Follow the directions to the Central Library. Go in, turn right, the conference room is on your left before you get to the cafe. If anyone's driving, may we suggest the garage at 100 Clarendon Street (next to Back Bay Station). Close by, and far less expensive than any of the other local garages. Or, search nearby parking at http://boston.bestparking.com/

Voting process

Future meetings

Suggest some other, future locations below. Something not too hard to get to for folks in all corners of the N.E. area would be best

Somewhere in Western Mass (a.k.a. 413; a.k.a. Northampton, MA; a.k.a Hamp) - This would work best for me, the further West, the more likely I can make it (ecorrado)
I can probably offer free space in our Concord NH campus with good network and projectors, though I realize that may be too far north for some --Casey
Somewhere in the Boston area
Portland, Maine, of course. Where else? LibraryThing will buy donuts.
I could suggest New Haven, but it isn't exactly a central location for this group. --dlovins
+1 for Portland, ME. I might be able to arrange meeting space at the U of Southern Maine if this is a viable location. --jonvw
Forbes Library during their business hours
Possibly one of the Five Colleges?
Boston Public Library (end by 9pm Monday through Thursday, or end by 5pm Friday through Sunday)
Elsewhere? Add to this list...

Who?

Feel free to add yourself.

Jay Luker, Ex Libris Software Engineer, lbjay#code4lib
Michael B. Klein, Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian at the Boston Public Library, mbklein#code4lib
Jodi Schneider, Science Library Specialist at the Amherst College Library, JodiS#code4lib
Casey Bisson, a person too lazy to list his own title
Daniel Lovins (Yale Library)
Tim Spalding (LibraryThing)
Jonathan Williams, URSUS Systems Manager, University of Maine System, jonvw#code4lib
Edward M. Corrado, Head of Library Technology, Binghamton University(NY); ecorrado#code4lib (yea, I know NY <> NE, but heck, if it is in the Western part of NE, I can make it)
Keith Jenkins (Cornell Univ.)
Winona Salesky, librarian in limbo
Andrew Bangert (Lewiston, ME)
Emily Alling (UMass Amherst)
Alison Babeu (Perseus Digital Library-Tufts University)
Greg McClellan (Brandeis University)
Chris Beer (WGBH)
Rosalyn Metz, Systems Administrator for Curricular Support (Wheaton College)
Jeffrey Barnett, Sr. Research Analyst (Yale University Library) and (yufind beta developer)
Tania Fersenheim (Brandeis University)
Dai Wei (Brandeis University)
Courtney Michael (WGBH)
Dov Frede (WGBH)
Rich Wenger (MIT Library)
Sands Fish (MIT Libraries R&D)
Jean Rainwater (Brown Univ.)
Birkin Diana (Brown Univ.)
Michael Park (Brown Univ.)
Alberto Accomazzi, NASA Astrophysics Data System (morning only)
Liza Daly (threepress.org)
Ben Florin (Simmons College GSLIS)
James Fox (Simmons GSLIS, hopes to make it -boss don't read this)
David Dwiggins, Systems Librarian/Archivist, Historic New England (Not sure about meeting yet.)
Shannon Astolfi (Simmons College GSLIS, Minuteman Library Network)
Jennifer Eustis (Catalog and Metadata Librarian, Northeastern University, morning only)

Other Events Nearby

NERCOMP Beyond Information Discovery Monday 11/3
Mobile Mania: Developing information services for portable devices Wednesday 11/5 (Boston)
PALINET Open Source discovery systems day VuFind, Blacklight, Lucene/Solr applications Thursday 11/6 (Philadelphia)
NYC METRO Science Librarians: Rutgers on authentic digital objects; NSDL on updates Friday 11/7 1:30 PM (NYC)
OCLC/NYPL Labs Hackfest: Fri 11/7 & Sat 11/8 (NYC)
DLF Fall Forum, for DLF institutions: Weds-Fri 11/12-14 (Providence)
Five College-sponsored unconference 5/29 (Amherst, MA)