2019 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting

Location

Thompson Library, Columbus, OH, Room 165.

The Ohio State University Libraries

Google Maps

When - July 18 & 19, 2019

To help us make sure we have a room for you to present in, we encourage you to submit a proposal by the end of June, 2019. Unless we get a tremendous amount of proposals we do not anticipate rejecting submissions.

Link to submit your presentation

Registration for this conference is free and does not require joining a national organization. Due to space limits, registration will be limited to around 50 participants. Please add your name to the page or email (reese.2179@osu.edu Terry Reese) to "register".

Getting Here/Parking

Thompson Library is located at the heart of the campus on the Oval. You can find it on the map here: Map to Thompson Library

Over the summer, parking on either surface or garages is pretty straightforward. You can find parking information here: OSU Parking Information

Accommodations

We do not have block reservations arranged at any of these hotels. A list of near by hotels will be added.

Meals

Coffee, tea, and pastries will be sponsored by OCLC on July 18th. For all other meals check our list of local dining options on and around campus.

Eat, Drink, Do Fun Things

Eat & Drink Being Close to campus, there are lots of food and drink options. For students and locals, the Short North offers a wide range of options.

Fun Things

• Kingmakers Board Game Parlour offers drinks and board gaming fun.

Wireless internet

The Ohio State University is a member of Eduroam, and public wireless is available on campus.

Other Questions?

Contact Terry Reese at reese.2179@osu.edu

Thursday

9-9:30: Continental Breakfast (Coffee, tea) (Sponsored by OCLC)

9:30-4:30: Event [slotting sessions -- will be available shortly]

4:30-5:30: Travel to OCLC in Dublin

5:30 - ?: Tour of the OCLC Data Center

Description: July 18, 2019

5:30 p.m.

Tour: OCLC Headquarters

OCLC is the world’s leading library cooperative that provides research, technologies and services that help thousands of libraries around the world serve their users.

OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world’s largest online database for discovery of library resources. With headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA, OCLC operates offices, data centers and engineering sites around the world.

This tour of OCLC headquarters includes an opportunity to visit the OCLC Data Center, the technology platform for OCLC products and services. You’ll also see the OCLC Library, Archive & Museum, with its unique items including Melville Dewey’s hand-written notes in the first edition Classification and Subject Index for a Library, and a museum illustrating OCLC’s rich history. Note: OCLC completed renovations of its headquarters in August 2016. This tour provides an opportunity for those who have not yet seen the renovated building to do so.

Directions and an OCLC campus map are accessible via this link: https://www.oclc.org/en/contacts/campus-map.html . Please follow the campus signs to the Kilgour Building. You’re welcome to park in any of the parking spaces except those indicated otherwise with a sign (handicapped, reserved, person name, etc.). Once you arrive, please meet in the Kilgour Building atrium. For additional information about the tour, please contact Nancy Lensenmayer, lensenma@oclc.org.

Representatives from OCLC member libraries are welcome to attend.

Friday

8:30-9: Continental Breakfast (Coffee, tea) (Coffee, tea) (Sponsored by OCLC)

9-11:30: Event [slotting sessions -- will be available shortly]

11:30-12:00: Wrap up

Code4Lib Midwest programming depends on the folks attending the conference. Please consider giving a presentation or lightning talk, or submitting your ideas for a hackfest/breakout session.

Presentations

Title - Serverless & IIIF

Presenter, Affiliation - Jeff Mixter & Hank Sway, OCLC

Description

Title - jQuery for a Citation Game

Presenter, Affiliation - Minhao Jiang, Wayne State University

Description

The Wayne State University's citation game, accessible at https://library.wayne.edu/services/instruction/research/mod6/ (they are located near the far right end of the carousel), experienced a round of modernization just months ago due to various reasons including the shift from the use of technologies that were researched to be both increasingly proprietary and on the decline to those which are open source. jQuery widgets ended up being used as the replacement. The citation game is an excellent example that web development technologies can be used beyond the intended way, and be translated to an essential piece in library instruction. In addition to the introduction of the background, the presentation will focus on lessons learned including those related to interplay with the coda-slider package, which provides the sliding behavior among all game sessions pertaining to a particular citation format.

Title - Support Ticket Best Practices

Presenter, Affiliation - Paul Butler, Ball State University

Description

For many of us reading and submitting support tickets is a daily task, but perhaps not something we've formalized. For this presentation I will discuss the elements that makeup a successful support ticket. I will then open the conversation up to the room to elicit useful insights and horror stories.

Title - Overcoming the Pitfalls of LibGuides through Design

Presenter, Affiliation - Simon Robins, Northwest Ohio Medical University

Description

This presentation will focus on two case examples of comprehensive LibGuide redesigns which aimed to depart from traditional usage of LibGuides with regard to design and layout. It will include a discussion of the HTML and CSS developed and the usability heuristics applied. I will also detail how I envision this type of content as a departure from standard usage of LibGuides at academic libraries, which often consists of bulleted lists of resources. This presentation will encourage the librarian community, especially the medical librarian community, to think of their LibGuides as web content deserving of the same attention to design, usability, and appearance as other online content.

Title - Using Combine to Aggregate and Assess Metadata

Presenter, Affiliation - Amelia Mowry, Wayne State University

Description

Combine is an open-source metadata aggregation tool originally developed at Wayne State University. It harvests data and allows for assessment, validation, and transformation. This presentation will introduce Combine and discuss the ways it can be used in digital library workflows.

Title - Library Website: CMS vs. SSG

Presenter, Affiliation - Meng Qu, Miami University

Description

The Miami University Web Service Team of the University Library is renovating the library website in recent months and keep working on the site building. During the process, the team has examined the general Content Management System platforms and summarized a series of advantages and disadvantages of these applications. Meanwhile, the proposal for replacing the current platform (Drupal 7) with a Static Site Generator (Jekyll) is rising in the website development industry. Therefore, the Miami University Library Web Service Team decided to apply a combination of CMS + SSG to renovate the library website. In this presentation, the web service librarian from the team would like to share the evaluation process and decision making of the project, and to discuss the methodology of finding a suitable platform to develop a library website.

Title - A Demo of FOLIO: What Does a Library App-based Platform Look Like

Presenter, Affiliation - Peter Murray, Index Data

Description

After a couple of years of intense development, FOLIO is reaching the stage where libraries are considering its use for production tasks. One of the aims of FOLIO is to reduce the effort required for testing out new ideas for in the library marketplace. The core apps have RESTful APIs all the way down to the tenant configuration level, which enables other systems to interact with FOLIO in unique ways. This talk demonstrates the user interface of FOLIO (project name "Stripes") and the RESTful microservices gateway (project name "Okapi"). Participants will have a greater understanding of FOLIO's vision for an app-based platform and the mechanics of the FOLIO technology.

Title - The Connected Repository : The Bibliography of the Web

Presenter, Affiliation - Thomas Scherz, University of Cincinnati

Description

As all of our information moves from print to digital objects we need new ways to validate, cross-reference, and authenticate information. The Web 3.0 is providing us the next generation tools to help connect, describe, and verify that the informational resources we are using are factually related. Like most intelligences this will be automated through AI engines, coded algorithms, resource linking, and accurate metadata. We will explore some of the current technologies (APIs, Cloud Providers,…), open access protocols (Linked Open Data, DOIs, URIs,…), and community initiatives (Semantic Web, RDF,…) The goal of this presentation is to provide an overview of current linking technologies, demonstrate possible integration for your institutional repository, and discuss the future of validation and verification.

Lightning Talks

Have something cool to share but you don't want to be in front of the room for more than 5 minutes? Lightning talks are for you. 5 minute max. Sign up now or at the conference:

• Title - Presenter

Breakout Sessions

Actual breakout sessions presented and locations will be determined on July 18th. Please propose an idea here if you are willing to facilitate a discussion on a topic.

Title

Registration will be capped around 50ish. Please add your name to indicate that you will be attending. If you can't add your name, please contact Terry Reese (reese.2179@osu.edu)

1. Terry Reese
2. Doug Loynes
3. Roy Zimmer
4. Hank Sway
5. Sue Beck
6. Derek Zoladz
7. David W. Green
8. Paul Butler
9. Mateo Palos
10. Tim Sprowl
11. Eric Haskett
12. Simon Robins
13. Jen Johnson
14. Annamarie Klose Hrubes
15. Jeff Mixter
16. Hydy Cates
17. Natalie Rotnov
18. Thomas Scherz
19. Beth Snapp
20. Russell Schelby
21. Chris Bartos
22. Stephen Cassidy
23. Phoebe Kim
24. Jason Michel
25. Ousmane Kebe
26. Peter Murray
27. Amelia Mowry
28. Esty Thomas
29. Travis Clark
30. Stefan Langer
31. Dean Lingley
32. Michelle Henley
33. Anna Subramaniam

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