2010talks Submissions

Edit this page to submit your proposal for a 20-minute talk at the Code4Lib 2010 Conference. For more information, see the Call for submissions. Please follow the formatting guidelines:

Talk Title:

Speaker name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es):

Abstract of no more than 500 words:

Place your submission at the bottom of the page below this line:

Talk Title:

Mobile Web App Design: Getting Started

Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:

Michael Doran, University of Texas at Arlington, doran@uta.edu, http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/

Abstract:

Creating or adapting library web applications for mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre is not hard, but it does require learning some new tools, new techniques, and new approaches. From the Tao of mobile web app design to using mobile device SDKs for their emulators, this presentation will give you a jump-start on mobile cross-platform design, development, and testing. And all illustrated with a real-world mobile library web application.

Talk Title:

Drupal 7: A more powerful platform for building library applications

Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:

Cary Gordon, The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com

Abstract:

The release of Drupal 7 brings with it a big increase in utility for this already very useful and well-accepted content management framework. Specifically, the addition of fields in core, the use of the PHP_db abstraction layer, and the promotion of files to first class objects facilitate the development of richer applications directly in Drupal without the need to integrate external products.

Talk Title:

Fiwalk with Me: Using Automatic Forensics Tools and Python for Digital Curation Triage

Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:

Mark Matienzo, The New York Public Library, mark@matienzo.org

Abstract of no more than 500 words:

Building on Simson Garfinkel's work in Automated Document and Media Exploitation (ADOMEX), this project investigates digital curation applications of open source tools used in digital forensics. Specifically, we will be using AFFLib's fiwalk ("file and inode walk") application and its corresponding Python library to develop a basic triage workflow for accessioned hard drives, removable media, or disk images. These tools will allow us to create a simple, Web-based "digital curation workbench" application to do preliminary analysis and processing of this data.

Talk Title:

Do it Yourself Cloud Computing with Apache and R

Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:

Harrison Dekker, University of California, Berkeley, hdekker@library.berkeley.edu

Abstract of no more than 500 words:

R is a powerful and extensible open source statistical analysis application. Rapache, software developed at Vanderbilt University, allows web developers to leverage the numeric processing and graphical capabilities of R in real-time through simple Apache server requests. This presentation will provide an overview of both R and rapache and will explore how these tools are relevant to the library community.

Talk Title:

Metadata editing - a truly extensible solution

Speaker name, affiliation and email address:

David Kennedy, Duke University, david.kennedy@duke.edu
David Chandek-Stark, Duke University, david.chandek.stark@duke.edu
http://library.duke.edu/trac/dc/wiki/Trident

Abstract of no more than 500 words:

We set out in the Trident project to create a metadata tool that scales. In doing so we have conceived of the metadata application profile, a profile which provides instructions for software on how to edit metadata. We have built a set of web services and some web-based tools for editing metadata. The metadata application profile allows these tools to extend across different metadata schemes, and allows for different rules to be established for editing items of different collections. Some features of the tools include integration with authority lists, auto-complete fields, validation and clean integration of batch editing with Excel. I know, I know, Excel, but in the right hands, this is a powerful tool for cleanup and batch editing.

In this talk, we want to introduce the concepts of the metadata application profile, and gather feedback on its merits, as well as demonstrate some of the tools we have developed and how they work together to manage the metadata in our Fedora repository.