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Welcome to code4lib Code4Lib BC! Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.
== '''Second Seventh Annual Code4lib Code4Lib BC EventUnconference 2019''' ==
'''When''': Thursday, 28 November 27 and 28Friday, 201429 November'''
This year'''Where''': SFU Harbour Centre, s Code4Lib BC will be held on the North Shore of Metro Vancouver, BC [http://gooand jointly hosted by West Vancouver Memorial Library and Capilano University. The Thursday events will be held at the West Vancouver Memorial Library. Friday's activities will be held at Capilano University's main campus.gl/maps/iyC0j map]
=== What'''Cost''': $20s it all about? ===
It'''Accommodations''': Info coming soons a 2-day unconference - a participant-driven meeting bringing together a diverse and open community of library developers and non-developers engaging in effective, collaborative problem-solving through technology regardless of their department or background.
* '''What's included''': It’s a 2 day unconference! A participant-driven meeting featuring lightning talks in the morningswifi, breakout sessions in the afternoonspower, with coffee, tea and /snacks provided. Lightning talks are brief presentations which are typically 5-10 minutes in length (15 minutes is the maximum) on topics related to library technologies: current projects, tips and tricks, or hacks in the works. Breakout sessions is an opportunity to bring participants together in an ad hoc fashion for a short, yet sustained period of problem solving, software development and fun. In advance of the event, we will gather project ideas in a form available through our wiki and registration pages. Each afternoon the code4libBC participants will review and discuss the proposals, break into groupslunches, and work on some of the projectsprizes.
* '''WhoWhat's NOT included/what to bring''': A diverse and open community of library developers and non-developers engaging in effectivea laptop, collaborative problem-solving through technology.Anyone from the library community who is interested in library technologies are welcome to join and participatedinner, regardless of their department or background: systems your ideas and IT, public services, circulation, cataloguing and technical services, archives, digitization and preservationenthusiasm. All are welcome to help set the agenda, define the outcomes and develop the deliverables!
* '''WhyHashtag''': Why not? code4libBC is a group of dynamic library technology practitioners throughout the province who want to build new relationships as much as develop new software solutions to problems[https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23c4lbc&src=typd #c4lbc]
* '''HashtagCode of Conduct''': #c4lbcAs a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the [http://bit.ly/coc4lib Code4Lib Code of Conduct], which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment.
Is there a neat project you'''Code of Conduct''': As ve been working on, a Code4Lib eventcool new tool you want to show off, we adhere to or an interesting development in the Code4Lib Code world of Conduct, which seeks library technology that you want to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment. Please see the [http://bit.ly/coc4lib Code of Conduct] for further details.discuss?
=== Schedule ===
==== Thursday Day 1 ===={|| 9:00 || Welcome & Announcements|-| 9:15 || Lightning Talks|-| || *Gordon Coleman - Adapt, integrate, collaborate: Applying lessons from Battlestar Galactica to academic libraries*Dan Gillean - Artefactual/MoMA digital repository to meet the needs of museum collections*Ashley Lavoie - Creating a ticketing system for literature searches using Sharepoint and InfoPath*Trevor Smith - How to hack your ILS and make friends on campus|-| 10:30 || Coffee break|-| 10:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd|-| || *Joyce Wong - UX tools & techniques*Galen Charlton - Putting the cat in the catalogue: a feline-inspired OPAC theme for Koha*Dan Gillean - AtoM's XML-to-XSLT conversion feature for creating user-friendly PDF finding aids*Mark Jordan - Web Scraping for Fun and Profit|-| 11:30 || Lunch (On Your Own) [http://eg2013.sitka.bclibraries.ca/social-events/#thursday-lunch Suggestions]|-| 1:00 || Breakout Sessions|-| || ''Breakout proposals are still coming in & will be accepted until the start of the sessions on each day of the event.''|-| || '''Virtualization/Evergreen install''' - This breakout will introduce participants to different kinds of virtualization, step them through a simplified Evergreen install and result in a virtual machine image that can be easily loaded. Facilitated by Scott Leslie of the BC Libraries Co-op.|-| || '''Place-based access to First Nations-related information in BC libraries''' - Participants will be invited to explore the possibilities for an indigenous mapping project using user-defined coordinates. Targets might include maps, images, digitized material or surrogates. Facilitated by Dana McFarland of Vancouver Island University.|-| || '''AtoM sandbox''' - AtoM is an open source, web-based, multilingual archival description software developed by Artefactual Systems. It was originally commissioned by the International Council on Archives to make it easy for archival institutions to put their archival holdings online. Artefactual systems will be on hand to answer questions while participants work in the sandbox.|-| || '''Islandora sandbox''' - This breakout is for code4libbers interested in getting some hands-on experience with Islandora, an open source general-purpose repository platform. The facilitator (Mark Jordan, SFU) will be on hand to provide an overview of Islandora's capabilities and to answer questions.|-| 3:15 || Break|-| 3:30 || Breakout Reports|-| 5:00 || Social at [http://www.malones.bc.ca/ Malone's] the first drink is on us, and Thursday nights they have karaoke!|}
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| 9:15 00 || Lightning TalksWelcome and announcements
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| 9:15 || Lightning talks *Trevor Smith Icebreaker activity - The LITA Forum & library data in PythonKevin Brash*Cecily Walker - Mapping community sites of interest with [https://drive.google.com/open source mapping tools?id=1vnMuq1M8cejj9QJHXZoUOm-sdkf_3Cpq Scraping index pages and VuFind implementation] - Louise Brittain Boisvert*Daniel Sifton [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1njuxu0CacJmVAq5NMwhdHgV8I- Using MapBox and geoJSON to showcase historical slides and audio recordings-96lBe Blended learning in libraries: Google IT Support Certificate Program at Surrey Libraries] - Erol Olcay*Scott Leslie [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZLYro3HYm- How your library can REALLY protect free speech and anonymityGwvJqR1WF5vsGCFkIuA5I4 Implementing an IT service desk!] - Tamarack Hockin / Jason Swan* [https: Expanding anonymous, uncensored internet access //drive.google.com/open?id=1MufAHe5_MkWL00VOFQUAXjAUDDWYGP1J Ditch Deep Freeze: Public computer administration for library patronssmall libraries] - Camille Ginnever
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| 10:30 || Coffee breakBreak
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| 10:45 || Lightning Talks, conttalks (continued)* Authorities cleanup - Trevor Smith* [https://cynthiang.ca/2019/11/28/presentation-implementing-values-in-practical-ways/ Implementing values in practical ways] - Cynthia Ng* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t6qvxSigLpvTz-k1mlKVd6Dm4amE6tyJ Tell Your Story: Ebook creation for 11-14] - Patricia Lesku* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CcB77MvBCDTnJVeH2AqhZCIFlRMbyRM1 JavaScript and CSS elements in circulation notices: A dilettante'ds perspective] - Olga Kalachinskaya* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1H0V21mhKmVQJiN2tN9d-McM7h4EEAPh1 Ebook Ordering: How we expanded our collection with intentional ordering] - Michelle Yule
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| 12:00 || *Misty De Meo - Identifying performance bottlenecks and submitting improvements for Archivematica*Galen Charlton - Levering linked data tools for traditional catalogues Lunch (and traditional cataloguersprovided)*Alex Garnett - Little bins in big workflows: Using small programs to automate tasks & solve problems
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| 111:30 00 || Lunch (On Your Own) Breakout sessions * The Lab Learning Space at WVML - Andrea Tartaglio / Patricia Lesku* [httphttps://eg2013docs.sitkagoogle.bclibraries.cacom/social-eventsdocument/#thursdayd/1hZ9f-lunch Suggestions7aZbgH00Iv0CAuI8quRot47zEEvlwzMErx1J5E/edit?usp=sharing Implementing values]- Cynthia Ng
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| 12:00 30 || Breakout SessionsBreak
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| 2:45 || ''Breakout proposals are still coming in & will be accepted until the start of the sessions on each day of the event.''(continued)* Blended learning in libraries - Erol Olcay* Intranets
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| 4:00 || '''Demystifying APIs''' - Alex Garnett, Data and Preservation Librarian at SFU, will provide a brief, hands-on overview of interacting with various APIs using a command-line terminal. No prior knowledge of programming is required, only a willingness to learn about fun things like shell scripts and HTTP methods and POSIX environments.Breakout reports
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| 5:00 || Social event'''Format Policy Registry - Actionable Preservation Planning''' - Artefactual systems has developed a Format Policy Registry (FPR) for Archivematica users to track and update file format policies within the Archivematica dashboard. Developer Justin Simpson will discuss the potential for integration of the FPR into other digital preservation and digital access tools, using examples from Hydra, Islandora, and Dataverse. The vision of coordinating digital preservation tasks within an institution and crowdsourcing solutions to digital preservation problems across multiple institutions will be discussed. An Archivematica sandbox will be available throughout the breakout session. Sarah Romkey (Artefactual Systems) will be available to answer questions while participants work in a live Archivematica instance. Participants should bring a laptop to this session.|-| || '''Internet filters--ugh. New strategies for empowering users''' - Intellectual freedom is a core value of libraries, yet * [https://docsgoo.google.comgl/spreadsheetsmaps/d/1yj2xPXGKsaOBtHlP2FeQt-M8bkr50KUlJ-tCErwD7RY/edit#gid=0 many libraries limit or filter internet content]. Tara Robertson is curious if it's possible to make a site for library users to visit to learn if their internet is likely being filtered, possibly like http://isthissitebuiltwithdrupal.com, to make this problem visible in the hopes that patrons will complain to their libraries. Tara is keen to strategize other ways to facilitate this. 6KsoUh8XsAXp6ABm8 mahony |-| ||'''Is Evergreen Ready for Academic Showtime?''' - An informal discussion about what academic libraries need in an integrated library system, and about how (if at all) the open source [http://evergreen-ils.org/ EvergreenBurrard Landing] ILS meets those needs. Folks who are knowledgeable about Evergreen will be on-hand to explain features and answer questions.|-| 3:15 || Break|-| 3:30 || Breakout Reports|-| 4:00 || End of Day* Karaoke!
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=== Lightning Talk Proposals and Breakout Suggestions = Day 2 ====Submit them using this [http://goo.gl/1mPwlM Google form]. This time around we're trying an additional format, something we call "From Pitch to Prototype to Program". See form for more details.
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| 9:00 || Lightning Talks* Paul Joseph - Opening Talk* Linda Woodcock - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-vRlkrh5Pi_NGl5Tnd2N3VVblU/edit?usp=sharing RDA: 10 Things]* Mark Jordan - [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1015702/linked_to/Making%20TGM%20Terms%20Linkable.pdf Linked Data in SFU's Editorial Cartoons Collection]* Marcus Emmanuel Barnes - [http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusBarnes/code4-lib-bc-2013-lightening-talk SFU Library's METS-Bagger Tool]* Misty De Meo - Archivematica Format Policy Registry (FPR)* Cynthia Ng - [http://t.co/vIHCuuGExZ Shifting Perspectives: From Disability Accommodation to Universal Design]* Stefan Khan-Kernahan - Course Reserves at UBC* May Chan - [http://ow.ly/rhk3L Hackfests for the Uninitiated]Announcements
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| 109:30 15 || Coffee breakLightning talks* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1B_BZrrvodFzX59YKsMWI1nnSG9TccGEH Code club for seniors] - Dethe Elza* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1__219rDiKi9R548yzi82eu0pCrhdZtW9JkcQFmDh4KA/edit?usp=sharing A review of open-source ERM options in 2019] - James Fournie* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ulI2iQiRYr5HJ2esztmF7pUDEukFw0EU_YKB9sl9RgQ Organizing Ideas podcast] - Allison Jones / Karen Ng* DokuWiki - Scott Leslie* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vS17QDbMx-poI_m8dsoVRoxN-UIUbvzcKTFEruo4ylQmlpRPralHB2SjJhoJ5LnwBUYLCCYJzyGQ9wL/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=15000#slide=id.p Fair and FAIR data sharing in the Global South] + [https://public.tableau.com/profile/alicia1500#!/vizhome/Slidescode4lib/RDAMembers?publish=yes Tableau Visualization] - Alicia Urquidi
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| 10:45 30 || Schedule JamBreak
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| 1110:00 45 || Breakout Sessions* Connecting Public Services and Library Data Lightning talks (NE side of roomcontinued) with Janis* RefDesk Dashboard for Springshare data - Trevor Smith* [[Creating_a_toolkithttps:/process_for_collaborative,_grassroots_archiving_of_significant,_small_BC_websites_using_DIY_tools]] with Scott (NW side of room)/drive.google.com/open?id=1ISFhhYZhVzKs17GkEDV_ca-ukymWKlOY Implementing OpenAthens for eResource authentication]- Hillary Webb* Omeka Plugin with John and Jon (South Central side of room)* accessibility [https://docsdrive.google.com/document/d/13zMopen?id=1kmk1jYzeqIKLkd0PpVars6LUIRdoVOAFLDf40L-Q84eYJqvfLdYWU8PkAf_z8RbeJC_iskPB5QlSo8/edithb3s Telling library stories with Tableau] - Tania Alekson* Learn more about UBC'c Reserves ProjectPrivacy-protecting technologies - Camille Ginnever* How to build in accessibility
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| 1 Hour 12:00 || Lunch (On Your Ownprovided) [http* Wraps://eg2013.sitka.bclibraries.ca/social-events/#thursday-lunch Suggestions]Chicken Caesar; Hummus and Veggie; Mediterranean Beef and Feta; Italian Milano; California Chicken and Tuna Salad; Egg Salad* Mediterranean Pita Chip Platter
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| 31:15 00 || BreakBreakout sessions|* Web archiving -Dana McFarland| 3:30 || Breakout Reports|* Project management -| 5:00 || Social|}Trevor Smith
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| 2:30 || Lightning Talks* Mark Jordan - [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1015702/linked_to/docr_smd%20%40%20%23c4lbc.pdf DOCR/SMD] [https://github.com/mjordan/docr-smd Source code]* Peter Tyrrell - Parsing PDF into Various Formats, [https://gist.github.com/peaeater Powershell scripts]* John Durno - Uploading to Internet Archive via API* Colleen Bell - Integrating ERM & Libguides Content* James MacGregor - PKP Article Level Metrics with OJS and OMP* Jonathan Schatz - The Story of BC Libraries' IT Environments* <strike>Sarah Sutherland - RFP Evaluation Process</strike>* Paul Joseph - UBC Digital Library Framework* Calvin Mah / Todd Holbrook - SFU Library - Hours DatabaseBreak
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| 102:30 45 || Coffee breakBreakout sessions (continued)* Establishing a code club for adults/seniors - Dethe Elza* Who wants to host Code4Lib BC in 2020?
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| 114:00 || Breakout Sessions* New bibliographic environment with May and Mark* Engaging digital asset viewer* library hours tool & api* UBC IT Reorg by Paul* Learn more about Archivematica with Misty and Courtney* Library Hours Tools & API* Hacking ILS's - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a8gH5JAJXSt4eix5TOaWnm0aUWTTv5U1jgqEc1zAYg4/edit Google doc]reports
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| 1 Hour 5:00 || Lunch (On Your Own) Meet up at [httphttps://eg2013goo.sitka.bclibraries.cagl/social-eventsmaps/#thursday-lunch SuggestionsK4xetNSFzyVKB1cv5 Coach House Lounge]|-| 3:15 || Break|-| 3:30 || Breakout Reports|-| 4:00 || End of Day
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=== '''Lightning Talk Proposals''' Sponsors === John Durno, University of Victoria* Filling up the Internet Archive using their S3-like API. UVic recently uploaded 750G of old newspapers and metadata (over 15,000 issues) to the IA via their API, based on Amazon's S3, by way of a simple python script making use of the boto library and a wrapper supplied by one of the IA developers. The API proved surprisingly robust, and I'd like to spread the word. Peter Tyrrell, Andornot* Setting up Apache Solr to index and search over multiple source types: database and fielded data, Excel/CSV, scanned mags and newspapers, PDFs, word processor documents, websites, geolocations, etc. Focus will be on schema and DataImportHandler considerations, plus amusing anecdotes as time allows.* Another option would be: scripts that parse a PDF into a TIF, JPG, TXT, and positional XML per page via djvulibre and imagemagick libraries. Make 'em ready for indexing and flexible display.* I could maybe go over how to (and how NOT to) represent and display hierarchical (cough, archival) data in an Apache Solr index. Mostly this would be a juicy rant about how just how ruddy difficult I found it. Stefan Khan-Kernahan, The University of British Columbia* UBC is launching an in-house product for managing course reserves that helps streamline workflows between faculty & library, within library staff (e.g copyright control etc.), and library & student, which I'd like to present on, the content of which would be on completed modules to date and learning lessons for others Marcus Emmanuel Barnes, Simon Fraser University* Normalizing existing digitized content into standardized packages for robust long-term management. A report on SFU Library's METS-Bagger tool, with a discussion of the benefits, design principles used for the packaging specification, and potential next steps. Colleen Bell, University of the Fraser Valley* I've been using PHP, JSON, and Libguides widgets to integrate Libguides content into our ERM and ERM content into our Libguides. This is particularly useful for libraries using SFU's researcher suite, but could provide ideas for anyone, since the code generated by the PHP can be displayed in any web page. Mark Jordan, Simon Fraser University* Libraries are realizing the potential for both exposing their locally managed content as Linked Data and for consuming Linked Data. One of the types of local data that offers a lot of promise for leveraging Linked Data's capabilities is the controlled subject terms applied to local digital collections. I would like to demonstrate how I've enriched SFU's Editorial Cartoons Collection's descriptive metadata with URIs from http://id.loc.gov, paying particular attention to those from the Thesaurus for Graphic Material.* Explanation and demo of docr/smd, a distributed Optical Character Recognition platform designed to use smartphones and tablets to do the OCR. May Chan, Burnaby Public Library* Hackfests for the Uninitiated. For all sorts of reasons, hackfests can be intimidating to first-timers and especially to those who have little or no programming ability. To encourage those new to this form of collaborative learning, my LT will relate key a-ha! moments from my first hackfest experience, especially some difficult truths learned.* The Code4Lib Conference Gender and Minority Scholarships. One of the ways Code4Lib supports gender and cultural diversity is to offer conference scholarships to women, transgendered persons and persons of ethnic or aboriginal descent. As a way to encourage potential BC applicants, this LT will give some nuanced background on the scholarship program and application process. Calvin Mah / Todd Holbrook, SFU Library* SFU Library - Hours Database. The Library Hours Database developed by Todd Holbrook at SFU Library is a tool for managing library hours. The SFU Library hours page is generated by this database: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/hours Sarah Sutherland, Canadian Legal Information Institute* I would like to discuss the process involved in evaluating the responses to requests for proposals for technology projects. There are often several very good submissions once the basic requirements are met, and at that point it becomes more about the style of the vendor and what kind of project it is. We recently went through this process, so I will use some anonymized examples from our process to illustrate my talk. Cynthia Ng, CILS @ Langara College* Shifting Perspectives: From Disability Accommodation to Universal Design<br>Too often we design for the "average" user and then tack on accommodations for those with disabilities, but there is no "average" user to speak of, and we all use "assistive" technology. With this presentation, I hope to help shift the way we think about library services and their delivery. Linda Woodcock, Kwantlen Polytechnic University* RDA : 10 Things. Walks through an RDA record focusing on new data elements and changes from AACR2. Will talk about benefits to user and possibilities for the future use of new data. Jonathan Schatz, BC Libraries Cooperative* This summer a colleague and I toured three library federations BC as "field librarians". These treks were part of a unique project to survey the IT environments of the Co-op's member libraries. In addition to sharing the data with the libraries as actionable status reports, we are developing an app to track all this member data for our support team, allowing for a high-level snapshot of Sitka libraries. I want to tell a quick story about what sorts of configurations and solutions we saw out there, what seem to work, what to avoid and perhaps some DIY tips for technology management for libraries with fewer resources. James MacGregor, Simon Fraser University Library* Public Knowledge Project has been working with PLOS to implement article level metrics within OJS and OMP. We are past the initial development stage, with a number of implementations live in production environments. We will discuss the available toolset, and future plans for it. Misty De Meo, Artefactual Systems* Archivematica Format Policy Registry (FPR)<br>Archivematica is an open-source digital preservation platform.<br>Starting with version 1.0, Archivematica has made much of the standard behaviour of Archivematica configurable. The FPR provides a database of the recognized formats in Archivematica along with the rules used to control how files are identified, how metadata is extracted, and how files are normalized, all of which is customizable by users without changing the Archivematica source code. This lightning talk would go over the FPR and what it enables in Archivematica, as well as the open-source FPR administrator app.* FITS performance optimizations<br>Archivematica has begun work on performance improvements to reduce the performance overhead of the FITS file identification tool in digital preservation workflows. This lightning talk would go over the major performance bottlenecks discovered and discuss the ways in which Archivematica is working to improve them. === '''Hackfest/Breakout Suggestions''' === Requests, but facilitator needed:* Want to put us where the user is - discuss* collaboratively improve an open source project's crappy documentation* my website is stuck in a crappy institutional CMS. What can I do with it? John Durno, University of Victoria* Develop an Omeka module that uses the Internet Archive to host video and audio content, essentially using Omeka as the front end user interface while taking advantage of the IA's media delivery/streaming capabilities. I envision two components: content and metadata would be uploaded via Omeka's admin interface. The IA's media player would be embedded in the public interface for content delivery. Stefan Khan-Kernahan, The University of British Columbia* Building a more engaging digital asset viewer than what is provided by ContentDM/competitors. Details: current digital asset presentation (e.g Content DM), whilst providing all the ""necessary"" information for the user (image + metadata etc.) simply lack in user engagement. If universities are expecting to build interest in these collections among current/future students, they need to cater for a more involved experience. I am proposing an image viewer for digital assets that allows tagging/hotspot that trigger supplementary information beyond metadata (e.g. video explanations of areas on maps, how they came to be etc) Karen J. Nelson, Capilano Unversity Library* Could we have a quickie: 1. FRBR explanation. 2. ditto data exchange. 3. ditto linked data. 4. bibframe. 5. WEMI language
While Code4Lib BC no longer solicits sponsorship, we want to acknowledge the contributions of:
as well as continued administrative and fiscal support from the [https://bc.libraries.coop/ BC Libraries Cooperative].
* Kevin Brash
* Michel Castagné
* Glen Greenly
* Maryann Kempthorne
* Patricia Lesku
* Jennifer O'Donnell
* Fiacre O'Duinn
* Andrea Tartaglio
= '''Past Events''' =