MDC/2015

Logistics and planning info for the 2015 C4L MDC Meetup.

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
• Users, UX, & Technology: Going hi-tech with your classroom AV system -- Bohyun Kim
• What We're Doing with our DH Mellon Grant - Mackenzie Brooks

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 for documenting code/data practices, and instruction.
• Github for dummies - A. Medina-Smith to lead
• Research data - What is everyone doing with research data? What should we be doing (storage, collection, analysis; all, none, or more)? - Julia Blase (and some SIL folks)

Hackathon ideas - feel free to post

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

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

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