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. 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

Organizing folks

• Andrea Medina-Smith
• Ben Wallberg
• Bill Helman
• Bohyun Kim
• Bria Parker
• Francis Kayiwa
• Josh Westgard
• Laura Wrubel
• Neil M. Frau-Cortes

(Please add your name if you are attending and willing to help organizing!)

Details, schedule, and registration

• REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: http://goo.gl/forms/yUYYySuzKc
  • Registration is free, but please do register if you are planning to attend (so we can plan accordingly)!
• SCHEDULE:
  • 8/11: Prepared talks (Morning), Unconference (Afternoon)
  • 8/12: Hackathon and Workshops

20-minute talks - feel free to sign up

• IMLS Grant Opportunities for Digital Library Projects --Tjowens (talk) 08:15, 16 July 2015 (PDT)
• CSV validation scripts for metadata wrangling -- Josh Westgard
• Omeka S: The multisite and linky next generation of Omeka -- Patrick Murray-John
• What Happens to UX When You Go Hi-Tech with your Classroom AV System: A Cautionary Tale -- Bohyun Kim

Unconference discussion topic - feel free to sign up

• DSpace and everything around the Dspace ecosystem. -- Ben Wallberg to lead
• Omeka S connectors -- To What, How, and Why should Omeka connect to other systems (DSpace (Hi, Ben!), Fedora, etc) -- Patrick Murray-John
• Makerspace programs and events: ideas and discsusion -- Bohyun Kim (If there are enough people working on this)
• [JupyterHub](https://github.com/jupyter/jupyterhub) for documenting code/data practices, and instruction.

Hackathon ideas - feel free to post

• A simple transcription tool for Fedora or Omeka-based digital collections

Workshop topics - feel free to sign up

• All your Logs are belong to us.

A workshop on how to do central logging of server logs. using Elasticsearch, Logstash/lumberjack and Kibana. Users will leave with a basic understanding of how to use these three tools to look at logs of all sorts up to and including the tweets.

--Francis

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

• IDE 1.0.5

FTDI Drivers

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux

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

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.)

Tentative Agenda

Main Meeting 4:30

• Introductions (5 minutes)

• Show n' Tell (15 min each)
  • Terry: File Analyzer https://github.com/usnationalarchives/File-Analyzer and/or DSpace web tools!

• • Linked Data projects and schema.org +1

• Business matters

5:30ish - Iron Horse for a beer. or Asia Nine if beer is not your thing.

Attending/Apologies

Attending: Eric P., Brooke, Keri (SIL), Joel (SIL), Carol, Ben Wallberg (UMd), Terry Brady G'town

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

• Introductions (5 minutes)
• Anyone went to ALA? Did we miss anything? (10 min)
• Anyone going to wikimania? (Brooke is :D)
• Brooke is going to thatcamp, too. (http://thatcamp.org/)
• Lightning talks, demos & Discussion (25 min.)
• Katie Filbert: Wikidata Project
• (tentative) Michael Levy: Blacklight at USHMM
• backplane, dchud
• Requests, ideas, topics for future gatherings (10 min.)
• Selection of next venue and schedule (2 min. 30 sec.) "can't grab a beer until we get a volunteer(tm)"

5:30ish - Iron Horse for a beer.

Attending/Regrets RSVP for 6/27: Rosy, Brooke, Joe, Dan, Josh, Keri, Joel, Katie, Terry, Michael, Carol, Nicholas, Ed

Paul @ UMW needs a ride from Fredericksburg in order to attend. Can anyone help him out?? Hmmm. Would he be cool with being picked up in the late morning and then taking the Metro from Alexandriaish? -Brooke Eric P is workin' the late shift

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

• Introductions

• Selection of next venue and a thanks to this round's host

• Shameless plug for (http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania)

• Update on the wider code{4}lib community

• You know you want to talk about summat. Joe did it.

• Requests, ideas, and volunteers for topics for future gatherings

5ish Booze!

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

10 - Noon Main Meeting

• Introductions

• Selection of next venue and a thanks to this round's host

• Shameless plug for (http://www.dcla.org DCLA)

• Update on the wider code{4}lib community

• There will be a quick summary of FRBR, and a possible solution for aggregates which opens up a whole 'nother can of worms, but allows for some complex relationships to be described.

• Requests, ideas, and volunteers for topics for future gatherings

12:15–1:30 Lunch

There are a whole bunch of lunch spots near the Library. We didn't do lunch last time, but maybe we will this go.

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

With representatives present from Public, Academic, and Special Libraries, this looked to be a great start to rejuvenating the Chapter. (School Librarians, come out and play!) We had a great discussion about Linked Data. We reaffirmed that we'll hold quarterly meetings, and that doing so regularly will help keep things rolling. We hope to have diverse subjects to explore to keep everyone's interest. We'll hold off on formal governance until a larger group necessitates formality.

The Martin Luther King Library in the District would like help with Library Lab DC if anyone would like to participate in that endeavour. This is also a wonderful place to go if you're looking for spot to house open collaboration.

There were a couple of interesting meetings and events to attend that we shared with one another.

Agenda

• 10 - Noon Main Meeting
• Introductions
• Discussion of current venue.
• Shameless plug for (http://www.fallforthebook.org/ Fall for the Book)
• Hash out possibilities of other venues.
• Is the frequency right? Will quarterly meetings still work?
• Is the Chapter's problem indicative of fragmented general regional Library collaboration?
• Update on the wider code{4}lib community
• Discuss and invite folks to get involved with Library Lab DC at the DCPL
• Requests, ideas, and volunteers for topics for future gatherings
• Governance (do we want any?)
• 12:15–1:30 Lunch

There are a whole bunch of lunch spots near the Library.

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. This meeting is a joint meeting between the two groups, the first part of the day is code{4}libMDC meeting, centered on our stated goal to focus our second meeting on Fedora. This part of the meeting will follow the same time line as our initial meeting. After lunch, the meeting will be the initial meeting of the DC Fedora Users Group, however all are welcome and encouraged to attend. This part of the meeting will deal with the more technical aspects of Fedora.

Agenda

8:30–9:00	Coffee and sign-in

9:00–9:10	Welcome and Introductions

9:10–9:30	MarcEdit (Chuck Schoppet, NAL)

9:30-10:15	Fedora/DuraSpace/ Update (Thornton Staples) and DuraCloud project and LC pilot (Andrew Woods)

10:15–10:30	Break

10:30-12:00	Fedora Projects (NASA Goddard, University of Maryland, NLM)

12:00-12:15	code{4}libMDC business discussion

12:15–1:30	Lunch

1:30–4:30	Fedora Users Group technical discussions (with break) 

Code4LibMDC had it's first meeting on Friday April 3, at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville MD a.m. A total of 30 people attended including people from: USDA, NASA, National Agricultural Library, Library of Congress, The Supreme Court Library, The United States Senate Library, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.

Contents

  1. Welcome by Maria Pisa, NAL's Associate Director for Public Services
  2. Individual introductions
  3. Presentations
     · John Doyle from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) gave a presentation on the use of Fedora Commons at NLM.
     · Vernon Chapman from the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) gave a presentation on Searching OAI-PMH metadata with SOLR. 
  4. Discussion of Next steps for Code4LibMDC
     · What will this group to be?
           · Open to all in the library community.
           · Showcase of library technology.
           · Formula for sharing of code and ideas.
           · A place for the development of collaborate projects.
     · How to get involved?
           · Prepare presentation on what you are currently working on:
               · Preparing for a new ILS.
               · Metadata translation
               · Digital repositories 
           · Share ideas.
           · Join smaller ad hoc meetings.
           · Set up a local Listserv for this group.     
  5. Scheduling
     · Meet quarterly for face to face meetings 
     · Hosted at sites in the area.
     · Vote on location of meeting on local Listserv.