North
Welcome to the home of the new Ontario/Canada chapter of Code4Lib. Our aim is to create more opportunities for Code4Lib folks in the Ontario/Quebec/Manitoba/Northeast USA area to meet up in person.
Mailing list
Want to participate in Code4Lib North meetups and receive "North"-oriented Code4Lib announcements? Join the code4lib mailing list. (The code4lib-north mailing list was discontinued.)
Code4lib North Meetups in Toronto
Purpose: To connect with other code4libbers in the area and start building a code4lib community in Toronto, Ontario. (blatantly copied from the Ottawa group)
Hashtag: #code4libTO also used: the general #code4lib
Next Meetup
The next meetup is to encourage collaboration between different libraries to do a presentation or workshop together! It will also be a great opportunity to brainstorm possible hackfest ideas as well. You can of course just come to hang out and chat too.
As this will be a drop in session, no reservations are needed, just show up! Hope to see you there
When: Friday, April 19, 5-7pm Where: Mozilla Toronto, 5th floor, 366 Adelaide West
Suggested beery place to gather afterwards: Town Crier Pub at 115 John St (just 3 blocks away)
Past Meetups
The first meetup was a simple social meetup on June 21, 2012. The idea is that other meetups will have presentations/talks to be had either before or during.
August 14, 2012 - Cool Tool Day
December 13, 2012 - Talk Notes
Code4lib North Meetups in Ottawa
Purpose: To connect with other code4libbers in the area and start building a code4lib community in Ottawa, Ontario
code4lib Ottawa meetups are now organized using Meetup.com. Sign up to be informed of upcoming meetings.
Next Meetup
Date: Thursday April 9th, 2015
Keep an eye on the Meetup page for further details.
Past Meetups
The inaugural code4lib Ottawa meetup occurred on March 28, 2012 and was a simple meet-and-greet at a local pub. Since then, we try to combine this social event with some short interesting talks. Here is what we have learned about in recent meetups:
Tuesday October 7th, 2014
Speakers:
- Mark Baker - Principal Architect at Zepheira provided a brief overview of some of Zepheira’s BibFrame tools in development.
- Jennifer Whitney - Systems Librarian at MacOdrum Library presented OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) – a neat and powerful tool for cleaning up messy data.
- Sarah Simpkin, GIS and Geography Librarian & Catherine McGoveran, Government Information Librarian (both from UOttawa Library) - presented on a recent UOttawa sponsored Open Data Hackfest as well as to introduce you to Open Data Ottawa.
Location: MacOdrum Library, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Ottawa, ON (map)
April 30, 2013 - Meet, and share your favourite Library technology
June 13, 2012 - Lightning Talks
| Description of Talk |
|---|
| Devin Crawley from the Ottawa Public Library gave us a quick preview of the API to their BiblioCommons catalogue. The API will be publicly available this fall. |
| William Wueppelmann talked about what's going on at Canadiana.org and how they host and manage their huge digital collection and their efforts to achieve certification as a Trusted Digital Repository (TDR). |
| Mary Beth Baker spoke about the local tech scene in Ottawa and got us to consider the potential for collaboration with other groups. |
April 24, 2012 - Show and Tell Session
| Presenter | Description of Talk |
|---|---|
| Max Neuvians | Social-biblio.ca : An approach to Twitter data visualization, archiving, and the larger narrative. |
| Richard Akerman | Richard Akerman and Mary Beth Baker are organizing a Reading Garden at the upcoming Canadian Library Association conference. They are seeking advice on how to provide wireless access. Anyone with ideas is encouraged to get in touch with them. |
| Warren Layton | A quick demo of LibraryBox, a wireless filesharing device, which may have interesting applications in government and other libraries where IT restrictions can limit network use. |
Code4Lib North: the Sixth. St. Catharines Public Library, June 4 & 5, 2015
The 2015 Code4Lib North meeting will be held at the downtown branch of the St. Catharines Public Library We'll begin each day at a suitable time, like 9:00am.
54 Church St.
St. Catharines, ON
L2R 7K2
905-688-6103
map.
We will be observing the Code4Lib Code of Conduct
Coffee, light snacks and Wifi will be provided gratis.
Register
Via Eventbrite.
(Enter your twitter Handle to the Eventbrite sign up to be added)
Schedule
Actual Schedule will be published closer to the date of the event. In the meantime please signup for a talk:
Talk Sign Up
Code4Lib North is a great opportunity to talk about anything you are working on or pondering about. It can be as short as a 5 min lightning talk to just through out some ideas or up to a 30 min talk on whatever you like
| Name | Topic | Time (5 Min - 30 min) | Way to contact* | |
| Tim Ribaric | Lookit the cool things OpenRefine can do | 30 Min | @elibtronic | |
| David Bott | Virtualization | 30 Min | dbott@stcatharines.library.on.ca | |
| Thomas Guignard | Teaching programming skills to librarians | 30 Min | @timtomch, tom@timtom.ca | |
| David Fiander | Common Lisp for prototyping | 15 Min | david at fiander.info | |
| Alison Hitchens | Investigating BIBFRAME | 15 Min | @ahitchens | |
| Jeff Proehl | Where Is It? Linking items in the catalog to shelf locations | 30 Min | proehlj@canisius.edu | |
| John Fink | Mid-Level Docker Magic; using Docker Compose to deploy an AtoM test instance | 20 Min | @adr | |
| Whitni Watkins | Native MarcEdit for MacOS | 15 min | @_whitni | |
| Warren Layton | Using Open Data to Win Free Books | 15 min | @warlayton | |
* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to email me instead if you don't want to enter anything here
HackFest & Group Discussion Ideas
Depending on feedback we might spend some time running a HackFest/Group Discussions instead of just presentations. Add your ideas.
| Name | Idea | Way to contact* | |
| Tim Ribaric | Cloud v. Local, which one to choose? | @elibtronic | |
| Alison Hitchens | Playing with Open Refine | @ahitchens | |
| Alison Hitchens | Discuss ideas for following up on/practicing skills from Software Carpentry for Librarians course | @ahitchens | |
* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to email me instead if you don't want to enter anything here
Accommodations
There isn't a huge selection of places downtown to stay. Top choice is probably: Holiday Inn Ontario Street You might also want to stay on Brock Campus If there is enough interest we'll try to arrange a carpool from campus/hotel to the downtown branch.
Note from Alison Hitchens: FYI, individual accommodation at Brock is $110+HST total for 2 nights compared to Holiday Inn starting at $144+tax per night.
Parking
There are several lots downtown that you might want to use.
Best option is the Garden Park / Carlisle Street Garage
Hourly Rate: $1.50
Maximum Rate: $12
Central Library Parking Lot is also $1.50/hour but is limited to 3 hour maximum (enforced).
Chips and Pop
Lunch
There are plenty of walk-able places for lunch for Thursday and Friday. For those interested there will be sign up sheets for groups lunches. Some recommendations:
- Rise Above - Great Vegan Place
- Tim Hortons - Need I say more
- Sahla Thai - Great Pad Thai
- Merchant Ale House - Best Microbrew in the City
- Helen's Deli - Diverse menu
- Gord's Place - Urban Pub
- The Works Gourmet Burger - Gourmet Burger Bistro
Night Time Get Together
If you're in town on Wednesday June 3rd join us starting at 7:00pm at the Merchant Ale House
Thursday night - TBD.
After you are done with the conference, stick around around for the Wine. Or head down to the Falls.
Contact
Questions concern? Please contact Tim Ribaric, Brock University
David Bott, St. Catharines Public Library
905-688-6103 x212
Fifth Meeting: London Public Library, May 1st and 2nd, 2014
This year's conference is sponsored by London Public Library. We are hoping that this will encourage more participation from public library sector.
Code of Conduct
Code4Lib North 2014 seeks to provide a welcoming, fun, and safe community and conference experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Discriminatory language and imagery (including sexual) is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks, or any community channel such as the chatroom or mailing list. (from the Code4Lib Code of Conduct)
Note that the Code4Lib Code of Conduct applies at Code4Lib North and at the associated social events.
Registration
Space is limited, so please register through EventBrite.
- Hashtag: #c4ln2014
Cost
Attendance is free, but lunch is not provided. London Public Library is providing the space and wifi for the conference, and there will be a continental breakfast and coffee breaks both days.
Schedule
| Thursday | |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:20 | Talks (5-20 minutes) |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | Talks (5-20 minutes) |
| 11:45 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:45 | Workshop / hackfest |
| 2:45 | Break |
| Workshop / hackfest | |
| 4:30 | End of day / socialize |
| Friday | |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | Talks (5-20 minutes) |
| 10:30 | Break |
| Talks (5-20 minutes) | |
| 11:45 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:45 | Workshop / hackfest |
| 2:45 | Break |
| Workshop / hackfest | |
| 4:00 | Discussion Group Reports (if applicable) |
| 4:30 | closing comments / end of day |
Thursday Morning
| Name | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Sam Popowich and John Fink | A brief overview of modern configuration management and deploy tools; or, why your bash scripts are not scalable. | 20 mins |
| Geoffrey Allen | Using library systems to mould public school libraries | 20 mins |
| Dave Mitchell | Opening library data from a hostile data source | 20 mins |
| Grant Campbell | An XML Framework for Teaching RDA | 20 mins |
| Ruth Collings | It's not paranoia if they're really watching you: library patron privacy | 20 mins |
Thursday Afternoon
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Tim Ribaric | Hackfest: What can we do with an old ereader? |
| David Fiander | Discussion: patron online privacy vs professional values |
Friday Morning
| Name | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Ridley | CRKN's Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) Project: Overview & Feedback | 20 mins |
| Kim Martin | Preliminary findings from The Effects of Digital Technology on Seniors (EDITS) Project | 20 mins |
| Scott Cowan | RDA relationship designators as linked data: solutions to problems? | 20 mins |
| Chris Gray | Teaching SQL to Librarians at Software Carpentry bootcamp | 20 mins |
| Sarah Simpkin | Let's all go to the hackfest! #hackUOBiblio update | 5 mins |
Friday Afternoon
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Thomas Guignard | Discussion: The Angry Nerds Squad: Freeing libraries of bad tech solutions by challenging vanilla vendor proposals |
| Michael Ridley | Discussion: Defining a Collaboration Environment for a Distributed Library R&D Centre of Execellence |
| Sam Popowich | Discussion: Technological skills for librarians; expanding Software Carpentry curriculum |
5 minute talks signup
Feel free to edit this table to add your five-minute lightning talk proposal
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Sarah Simpkin | Let's all go to the hackfest! #hackUOBiblio update |
| Tim Ribaric | OLITA wants you! To h4ck an ebook reader. |
20 minute talks signup
Feel free to edit this table to add your 20-minute talk proposal
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Michael Ridley | CRKN's Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) Project: Overview & Feedback |
| Geoffrey Allen | Using library systems to mould public school libraries |
| Sam Popowich and John Fink | A brief overview of modern configuration management and deploy tools; or, why your bash scripts are not scalable. |
| Chris Gray | Teaching SQL to Librarians at Software Carpentry bootcamp |
| Kimberly Martin | Preliminary findings from The Effects of Digital Technology on Seniors (EDITS) Project |
| Dave Mitchell | Opening library data from a hostile data source |
| Ruth Collings | It's not paranoia if they're really watching you: library patron privacy |
| Grant Campbell | An XML schema for teaching RDA |
Hackfest and Discussion Group topic signup
Feel free to edit this table to add your hackfest proposal or discussion group topic idea.
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| David Fiander | Online services: Relinquishing professional values & patron privacy to provide content |
| Thomas Guignard | The Angry Nerds Squad: Freeing libraries of bad tech solutions by challenging vanilla vendor proposals. |
| Mike Ridley | Defining a Collaboration Environment for a Distributed Library R&D Centre of Excellence |
| Sam Popowich | Technological skills for librarians; expanding Software Carpentry curriculum |
Accommodations
Western University has negotiated special rates at a few hotels throughout London. The Delta Armouries and Hilton London are both within walking distance of the London Public Library Central branch.
Delta London Armouries Hotel
325 Dundas Street
London, Ontario N6B 1T9
- $112 Single/Double Standard; $112 Premier;
- $152 Signature King;
- $187 Suite
- (+$12 parking/night)
Complimentary high speed internet access, coffee maker, indoor pool & fitness centre, business centre.
Phone the hotel directly at (877) 814-7706 and tell them that you are attending a Western University workshop in order to get the Western rate.
Hilton London
300 King Street
London, Ontario N6B 1S2
- $109 Standard (1 King or 2 Double Beds);
- $149 Business Class (1 King Bed)
In-room coffee makers, hairdryers, irons and ironing boards, free high speed internet access, fitness centre, complimentary newspaper, 24-Hour business centre, 2 line phones and data ports, large work area with oversized desk, 24- Hour room service, indoor pool, sauna and whirlpool and complimentary parking.
Book reservations using the Western University rate
Parking
Social Events
Wednesday Evening
If you're in town Wednesday evening, come out to meet the other early-birds at Chaucer's Pub at 7:00.
Chaucer's Pub 122 Carling St London, ON N6A 1H6 Canada
Chaucer's Pub is part of the Marienbad restaurant, so this map is actually to the right place.
Thursday and Friday lunch options
Local restaurants within walking distance of the library.
Thursday Evening
Group dinner
Organizers
Fourth Meeting: Ryerson University, May 23rd and 24th, 2013
Shortlink: http://bit.ly/c4ln2013
This year we are proposing an un-theme for the un-conference: computational thinking, inspired by Jonathan Rochkind's blog post: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/computational-thinking-getting-started/
Sign-Up
Registration through EventBrite: http://c4ln2013.eventbrite.ca/
- Hashtag: #c4ln2013 or #c4ln
- Attendee List
When and Where
Dates: May 23rd and 24th, 2013
Times: 9am - 4pm
7th Floor, Heaslip House
The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education
Ryerson University
297 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario
Located: 1 block east of Yonge Street, just north of Dundas Street
Google Map: http://goo.gl/maps/NkbtQ
Closest subway stop: Dundas Station
Cost
Attendance is free but lunch is not provided. Ryerson will provide wireless access as well as coffee in the morning.
Schedule
To continue with the success of past C4LNs, the schedule will have talks in the morning and hackfests in the afternoon. We will finalize the speaking schedule Thursday morning but we will try to split the talks between the two days equally.
| Thursday | |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:20 | Talks (5-20 minutes) |
| 10:30 | Break |
| Talks (5-20 minutes) | |
| 11:45 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:45 | Workshop / hackfest |
| 2:45 | Break |
| Workshop / hackfest | |
| 4:30 | End of day / socialize |
| Friday | |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | Talks (5-20 minutes) |
| 10:30 | Break |
| Talks (5-20 minutes) | |
| 11:45 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:45 | Workshop / hackfest |
| 2:45 | Break |
| Workshop / hackfest | |
| 4:00 | End of day / socialize |
Thursday Morning
| Name | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Harnum | Computational Thinking | 15 min |
| Alison Hitchens | MOAR RDA for Systems Folks | 20 min |
| MJ Suhonos | MARC, XML, and JSON for non-coders | 15 min |
| Cynthia Ng | Making Accessible (Web) Services | 10 min |
| Katie Legere | Listen to your library - sonification of refstats data, library Sound File | 15 min |
| Nick Ruest | The Revolution Will Be Preserved | 20 min |
Thursday Afternoon
| Name | Title | Session Type |
|---|---|---|
| Mike Ridley | What should University Librarians/Chief Librarians know about library technology and library technologists? | Discussion |
| Cynthia Ng | Fail4lib | Discussion |
| Dana Thomas | Intro to (Scholars Portal) SFX | Workshop? |
| Trina Grover | New titles lists by subject | Hackfest |
Thursday afternoon notes/slides
Friday Morning
| Name | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew McAlorum, Ken Yang | Digital Humanities Project Showcase: DEEDS & RPO Anthology | 20 min |
| Steven Marsden | Find your books fast! Ryerson Bookfinder | 10 min |
| Bilal Khalid & Gordon Belray | The Library in your pocket: Responsive Catalogue at UofT | 15 min |
| Giles Orr | Credit Card Sized Computers? | 10 min |
| John Fink | Big Giant Box of Disks - mass storage on the cheap with Backblaze Pods | 10 min |
| Tim Ribaric & Jonathan Younker | Make your own Proxy? | 15 min |
| David Fiander | Comparing three ISBN APIs ; Using WebDav to add storage space to Zotero | 20 min |
Friday Afternoon
| Name | Title | Session Type |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Knight | Visualization for Navigating on a Sea of Linked Data | Lightning talk |
| MJ Suhonos | Ladder | Lightning talk / demo |
| Liam Whalen | Googling for Answers Past the First Page of Results | Discussion |
| Andrew McAlorum | Library Gamification | Hackfest |
| Trina Grover | RDA in RDF http://rdvocab.info | Hackfest |
| Tim Knight | Converting MARC to RDF/XML; RDF Stores; SPARQL Endpoint | Hackfest (to learn) |
Organizational team / Contact
- Cynthia Ng
- MJ Suhonos
- Steven Marsden
- Trina Grover
- Naomi Eichenlaub
Accommodation
Delta Chelsea
Address: 33 Gerrard St.
General Reservation: 1-800-243-5732
Phone: 877-814-7706 / 416-595-1975
Website: http://www.deltahotels.com
Rates: $149/night, (single or double)
Map - Approximately 5 minute walk from the Heaslip House
Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Toronto
475 Yonge Street
Toronto ON, M4Y 1X7
General Reservation: 1-800-847-5075
Phone: 416-934-5598
Website: http://www.marriott.com/yyzcy
Rates: $152/night, (single or double)
Map - Approximately 10 minute walk from the Heaslip House
Best Western Primrose Hotel Downtown Toronto
111 Carlton Street
Toronto ON, M5B 2G3
General Reservation: 1-800-937-8376
Phone: 416-977-8000
Rates: $149/night, (single or double)
Map - Approximately 10 minute walk from the Heaslip House
Ryerson University Residences
240 Jarvis Street
Toronto ON, M5B 2L1
General Reservation: 1-866-592-8882
Phone: 416-979-5296
Website: http://www.ryerson.ca/conference/accommodations/index.html
Rates: $88/night, (single)
[1] / [2] - Approximately 3-7 minute walk from the Heaslip House
Parking
Closet parking is at 300 Victoria St, accessible only from the south (so turn in from Dundas St.)
Rate: $15/day
More information available on the Ryerson Parking website
Social Events
We have made the following lunch reservations for both Thursday, May 23 and Friday, May 24 @ 12 noon. All reservations are under the name "Ryerson Library":
Salad King (Thai)
340 Yonge St
2 tables for 6
Queen and Beaver Pub (Gastropub)
35 Elm St
1 table for 6
Paramount (Middle Eastern/Lebanese)
253 Yonge St
2 tables for 4
Milestones @ AMC (American)
10 Dundas St E, 4th floor
1 table for 4
Evening Dinner/Social
Wednesday, May 23
Artful Dodger
10 Isabella St.
(no reservations) 7:30pm
NB: Toronto Chapter PLG is meeting beforehand at 6:30; all are welcome to attend.
Thursday, May 24
Elephant & Castle
378 Yonge St
Upper mezzanine for 20-25 @ 5pm
Food Nearby
A Google Map of some suggested places to eat near Ryerson, including price ranges, is available here: http://goo.gl/maps/ln3WR
Third Meeting: University of Windsor, May 24 and 25th, 2012
Schedule
The schedule has now been moved to an editable google doc at : http://led.uwindsor.ca/c4ln otherwise known as: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dlTqrBNfiYwjRpVnUvJbtW0K7en1ndVp84WqWbfOrvE/edit
Cost
This unconference runs on love... and the kindness of the Leddy Library who will provide : coffee, lunch, and wireless and the space
When and Where
Dates: May 24 and 25th, 2012 (it's on!)
Times: 9 am start time. 4 pm end time
Location: 4th Floor, Leddy Library, University of Windsor: http://www.uwindsor.ca/
Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/7a79qvw
Contact: mita@uwindsor.ca
Accommodation
The University offers rooms and suites for travellers, youth, and families seeking overnight, short or extended accommodations through its Conference Services: description of services provided. Use this Registration Form to book a room with Conference Services.
In addition, University of Windsor special visit rates may be available by calling the local number and asking for the University of Windsor rate at certain hotels (which shouldn't dissuade you from staying wherever you prefer):
Holiday Inn Select
1855 Huron Church Road, Windsor
Tel: 1-800-465-4329 or 519-966-1200 (3 km from campus)
Hampton Inn & Suites
1840 Huron Church Road, Windsor
Tel: 800-Hampton or 519-972-0770 (3 km from campus)
Quality Suites Downtown
250 Dougall Ave., Windsor
Tel: 519-977-9707 (3 km from campus)
(frequently used hotel for participants in Conifer hackfests)
Caesars Windsor
377 Riverside Dr. East, Windsor
Tel: 800-991-8888 (3 km from campus)
The Windsor Riverside Inn
333 Riverside Dr. West
Tel: 519-977-9777 (2 km from campus)
Travelodge Hotel Windsor Downtown Windsor
33 Riverside Dr. East
Tel: 519-258-7774 (3 km from campus)
There are no bed and breakfasts in the immediate area but the Argyle and Olde Walkerville Bed and Breakfasts are a bus ride away.
Social Events
There's nothing formal planned but on Wednesday and Thursday nights, we'll try to informally coordinate places to have supper together.
I suggest that those around on Wednesday night meet up at the Rock Bottom Grill at 3236 Sandwich Street, Windsor. It will busy because it's "2 for 1 Wing Night" but it should be worth it.
For those who love experimental film, there is the Media City Film Festival taking place in Windsor and Detroit. Jason Scott aka textfiles will be speaking at the Ann Arbor Public Library on Wednesday night
Food
We will be providing lunch and snacks. (please email organizers if you have a dietary restriction - we will be ordering vegetarian options but we want to make sure we have enough!)
Generally folks informally gather for supper.
Here are some of our nearby options:
WindsorEats: Windsor West
But there is much more if we wander farther afield: WindsorEats
Near the university on Wyndotte Street are various Asian dining options including:
And here's a list of places that could probably fit 40 people:
Format
A combination of 20 talks, 5 minute lightning talks, an Ask Anything session, workshops / hackfest time. We will try to find time for everyone who wants to present!
We have talks in the morning and hackfests in the afternoon. We will finalize the speaking schedule Thursday morning but we will try to split the talks between the two days equally.
20 minutes talks :: feel free to sign up
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Ted Lawless | easyArticle - streamlining access to library materials with OpenURL, automated interlibrary loan submission, vendor APIs, Django/Python. |
| Mita Williams | my sekret art project |
| John Fink and Warren Layton | Embedded Hardware Hijinx |
| Alison Hitchens | RDA for coders/systems folk presentation in Google Docs |
| Andrew McAlorum | Our favorite jQuery modules for Drupal 7 |
| David Fiander | The state of the ebook marketplace |
| Dan Chudnov | backplane |
| William Denton | Having provocative fun with reference desk statistics in R |
5 minutes talks :: feel free to sign up
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Nick Ruest | Other Redmine uses |
| Tim Ribaric | Circumvention using the Cloud? slides |
| Alison Hitchens | #catcode: Cataloguers embrace Code Year slides on Google docs |
| Mita Williams | "My god, it's full of stars! lists": building the library website that will incorporate Jamun. |
| Dan Chudnov | occupy 1923 |
| Graham Fawcett | A Web-based video annotation tool (for peer review, possibly captioning, maybe for some nefarious library uses we haven't imagined) |
20 or 40 minute workshops: each one teach one
- a workshop you are willing to lead
- Intro to Git, if demand warrants -- if not, no big deal (John Fink)
- Environmental monitoring on the cheap (Doug Sartori)
- (I program in a few languages, and could do a teaser-session on one of them if there's interest. Maybe Python, Haskell, Clojure or D?) (Graham Fawcett)
- Intro to the Twitter API, including how one might use it to make a Twitter bot (Rick Scott)
- a workshop you are willing to lead
- a workshop of what you would love to attend
- intro to IRC, meet zoia (Mita, Warren, Sarah, John F)
- how to create a twitter bot (Mita, John F, David F)
- intro to Git (Warren, Sarah, David F)
- a workshop of what you would love to attend
hackfest ideas :: scheme schemas
- build your own twitter bot; bot battles
hackfest ideas :: feel free to add to the list
- twitter bot war with code4lib The Great Eastern? http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/GreatEastern
- changing Odessi XML records to MARC XML so OCUL libraries can load MARC for Odessi, esp. Stats Can stuff. We started this project at TUG, so need someone to help me get further or finish! New note: Chris put what he did so far on github(Alison)
- @CanadianPoetry Sprint: Canadian Poetry Online needs an overhaul! Canadian Poetry is a web anthology of contemporary Canadian poetry, providing biographies and full-text poems from Canada's leading poets. Join in this code sprint to help with the migration to Drupal, site building, development, and theming of the new version. (Andrew)
- LibraryBox is a customized version of PirateBox that can run be run on the inexpensive TP-Link MR 3020. Currently, it acts as a simple file server but it could potentially offer a more library-focused service, such as an eBook server for nearby devices using OPDS. (Warren)
- Evergreen: The Evergreen project is currently recruiting volunteers for the Google Summer of Code effort and has a list of project ideas. Some of these ideas, if not already claimed by a student GSoC participant, might make for interesting hackfest projects. Or we could rewrite the MARC editor in Dojo.
- SPLURGE: The Scholars Portal Library Usage-Based Recommendation Engine began at a hackfest in February and has been worked on since then, but it needs one last push to get all of the pieces joined together so that an easy-to-use "people who borrowed this also borrowed that" service built on shared circ data can be tested. There are four parts to SPLURGE: data cleanup, getting it into a properly configured database, a web service that talks to the database, some Javascript that can dropped into a catalogue to talk to the web service. They all exist, but not all of them are quite done and they don't all talk to each other. The purpose of this hackfest project would be for people to familiarize themselves with the work that's been done, and then try to finish it up.
code4lib north organizational team
- Mita Williams
- Karen Pillon
- Peter Zimmerman
- Jennifer Soutter
- Cathy Maskell
- Ranti Junus (Michigan State)
hashtag and twitter list
- c4ln2012
- c4ln
- https://twitter.com/#!/copystar/c4ln
Second Meeting: McMaster University, May 5-6, 2011
Sign Up
We can handle a maximum of 50 people and you can signup here: http://c4ln2011.eventbrite.com/.
When and Where
Dates: May 5-6, 2011
Location:
- 1280 Main St. West, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario - (map)
- Mills Memorial Library, Lyons New Media Centre (4th floor)
Accommodation
Our helpful folks in Research Collections put this guide together a while back.
Parking, Campus Map, Public Transit
- Parking - I understand we have the most expensive parking in OCUL. I'm sorry :( - There is one bit of good news: if you park in the M lot, the day rate drops from $20 to $5. The M lot is about a 10-12 minute walk from the library, and there is a shuttle that will take you part of the way.
- Campus map - we are building #10 - Mills Memorial Library
- Public Transit
- HSR buses that come to campus are: 1, 51, 5c, 52, and 10 - The 10 and 52 drop off by the hospital, the others drop off right outside Mills.
Cost
Keep with tradition set last year - No cost and McMaster University has tentatively agreed to provided coffee, lunch, space, and wireless.
Format
Day 1:
- Hackfest (send problems/proposals to John Fink and Nick Ruest)
Day 2
- 5-minute lighting talks
- 20-minute talks
- BOAF/breakouts
20-minute talks
I'd like to start a new tradition with Code4Lib North and deposit the slides and *maybe* recordings of the presentations in our IR. If people are cool with this, I can get it all setup prior to the event.
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| William J Turkel | Functional Programming Workout |
| Dileshni Jayasinghe & Majid Valipour | Programming at Scholars Portal: apps and APIs |
| William Wueppelmann | The Canadiana Web API |
| Dan Chudnov | WWIC? Linked Library Data as a Customer Service Medium |
| Mita Williams | We're jamun (and we hope you like jamun too) |
| William Denton | Getting started with R |
| Alan Harnum | When All You Have Is XSLT, Everything Looks Like XML: Heterogeneous Cloud-Based Content Management Using Google Docs and Other Services |
| Wendy Huot | Why can't a web page be more like a book? Using LaTeX with Readability to generate better 'print friendly' versions of web pages |
| Chris Charles | Introduction to Google Refine |
| Karen A. Coombs | Zend Framework: making using web services easier |
5-minute lighting talks
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Andrew McAlorum | Transition to Unity |
| Dale Askey | Fun with Failure, or, Learning to Stick a Fork in Things |
| Alison Hitchens | Getting testers to test what you need to have tested! |
| Alison Hitchens | Using RT Tracker for user feedback |
First Meeting: Kingston ON, May 6-7, 2010
Sign up
Free registration -- but registration is now closed (we have 40+ signed up).
When and Where
May 6-7, 2010
- Thursday: 2pm-5:30pm, followed by dinner and drinks
- Friday: 9am-4:30pm
Meeting location:
- 93 University Ave, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario (map)
- Meeting room: 1966 North Reading Room, Level 7, Douglas Library Building (floorplan) - located on the top floor, just follow the signs to find the room.
Cost
There was no charge. Queen's University very generously supplied the space, the Internet connection, and free lunch on Friday!
How to get involved
Join the mailing list. That is where the planning will happen.
Format
- 5-minute lighting talks
- 20-minute talks
- BOAF sessions
- Maybe a hackfest.
How many are attending?
45 people have registered. Most will be attending.
Program
Thursday May 6:
- 2pm-5pm: Open format (hang out and hack)
- Evening: Go out for dinner and drinks
Friday:
- 9am-4:30pm: Schedule currently "under construction" -- see table below.
Morning Break: 10:30-10:45 .... Lunch: 12-1 ....
Afternoon: 5 minute lightning talks .... "Birds of a feather" breakout sessions (sign up sheets on front table)
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| William Denton | OpenFRBR |
| Walter Lewis | Exposing Linked Data |
| Art Rhyno | Open Layers and Newspapers (Walter Lewis) |
| MJ Suhonos | Location-aware Mobile Search |
| Alan Harnum | Building A Library Website with Endeca technology |
| Wendy Huot | "Your feedback, please": library web design critique |
| Glen Newton | Using Open Source Tools for Visualization and Semantic Mapping in a Large Scale Article Digital Library |
| Eric Palmitesta | XQuery |
| John Miedema | OpenBook WordPress Plugin Update - Why It's Cool to Love OpenURL +++ |
| Nasser Saleh | Coagmento!: a potential collaborative search tool |
Who's interested in Code4Lib North?
Declare your interest in a Code4lib North chapter:
- Wendy Huot, Queen's University
- Michael Vandenburg, Queen's University
- William Denton, York University
- John Fink, McMaster University
- Nick Ruest, McMaster University
- Walter Lewis, Halton Hills/OurOntario
- Edward Corrado, Binghamton University (NY, USA)
- Warren Layton, Library of Parliament (Ottawa)
- Pascal Calarco, University of Notre Dame (IN, USA)
- Rob Fox, University of Notre Dame (IN, USA)
- Mita Williams, University of Windsor
- John Fereira, Cornell University
- MJ Suhonos, Toronto Public Library
- Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University
- David Fiander, University of Western Ontario
- Peter Schlumpf, Avanti Library Systems
- Roy Zimmer, Western Michigan University
- Kimberly Silk, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto
- Andrew Darby, Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
- Laura Harris, Grand Valley State University (western Michigan)
- Tim Ribaric, Brock University
- Sibyl Schaefer, University of Vermont
- Peter Ellinger, Ontario Legislative Library, Toronto
- Keith Jenkins, Cornell University
- Patrick M. Lozeau
- Mike Kreyche, Kent State University
- Graham McCarthy, Ryerson University
- John Miedema
- Janey Chen, Ontario Legislative Library, Toronto
- Rob McDonald, Carleton University
- Amy Buckland, McGill University
- Tricia Williams (pgwillia), Consultant/OurOntario
- Mike Beccaria, Paul Smith's College (Paul Smiths, NY)
- Amanda Etches-Johnson, McMaster University
- Art Rhyno, University of Windsor
- Mary Beth Baker, CIC (Ottawa)
- Wayne Schneider, Hennepin County Library
- Carol Serroul, CISTI
- Graham Stewart, University of Toronto Libraries
- Peter Zimmerman, University of Windsor
- Margaret Kipp, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
- Dan Scott, Laurentian University
- Lawrence Wardroper (Courts Administration Services Library, Ottawa)
- Matt McCollow, McMaster University
- George Duimovich, NRCan Library (Ottawa)
- Bobbi Fox, Harvard University Library (Massachusetts)
- Dileshni Jayasinghe, OCUL, University of Toronto
- Eric Palmitesta, OCUL, University of Toronto
- Alexander O'Neill, Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island
- Chris Beer, WGBH (Massachusetts)
- Robin Isard, Algoma University (Sault Ste Marie ON)
- Pat Moore, Carleton University (Ottawa ON)
- Alan Harnum, Toronto Public LIbrary (Toronto ON)
- Colin Prince, University of Toronto Libraries
- Tom Keays, Syracuse University LIbrary (Syracuse, NY)
- Chris Charles, University of Guelph (Guelph, ON)
- John MacGillivray, Carleton University (Ottawa ON)
- Lester Webb, Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Kingston ON)
- Elizabeth Goldman, Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Kingston ON)
- Jennifer O'Donnell, Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Kingston ON)
- David Smith, Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Kingston ON)
- Loren Fantin, Our Ontario,Knowledge Ontario
- Daulton Theodore, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON)
- Peter MacDonald, Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
- Rebecca Larocque, North Bay Public Library (North Bay, ON)
- Doris Rankin, Library and Information Management Consultant, Ottawa, ON
- Diane Bédard, Learn Ontario & Our Ontario; Knowledge Ontario
- Andre Vellino, CISTI / University of Ottawa
- Mark Swartz, Queen's University
- Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives (Cleveland, OH)
- Pramila Thakur, Ontario Legislative Library, Toronto
- Anthony Petryk, University of Ottawa
- Jan Dawson, Ask Ontario, Knowledge Ontario
- Glen Newton, Carleton University
- Patrick McMaster, Leeds & the 1000 Islands, Rideau Lakes, and North Grenville Public Libraries
- Nasser Saleh, Queen's University (Kingston ON)
- Stéfan Sinclair, McMaster University
- William J Turkel, University of Western Ontario
- Shirley Lew, Vancouver Community College, (Vancouver BC)
- Edward Bilodeau, McGill University
- Andrew McAlorum, University of Toronto Libraries
- Marc d'Avernas, Waterloo Region District School Board
- Michel Castagné, University of Ottawa Library
- Whitni Watkins, St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
Meeting Location Suggestions for the Future
- Toronto, Ontario
- Sudbury, Ontario
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Montreal, Quebec