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Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.
== '''WhenSixth Annual Code4lib BC Unconference 2018''': November 28 and 29, 2013==
'''WhereSave the dates!''': SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC [http://goo.gl/maps/iyC0j map]
This year's C4LBC will be held in Nanaimo, BC, and jointly hosted by the University of Vancouver Island and Vancouver Island Regional Library. Again! The Thursday events will be held in downtown Nanaimo at VIRL's Harbourfront Branch. Friday'Accommodationss activities will be held the the VIU campus. This year''': Info coming soons organisers are trying hard to make everything as easy as possible for mainlanders travelling to the island, so stay tuned for details on transportation, accommodations, and much more.
It'''Who''': A s 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.Anyone from the library community who is interested in library technologies are welcome to join and participate, regardless of their department or background: systems and IT, public services, circulation, cataloguing and technical services, archives, digitization and preservation. All are welcome to help set the agenda, define the outcomes and develop the deliverables!
'''Tag dWhat'hashs included''': #c4lbcwifi, power, coffee/snacks, lunches, prizes, limited transportation from downtown Nanaimo to VIU campus.
=== Schedule ===
==== Thursday Day 1 ==== Events will be held at [https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Vancouver+Island+Regional+Library/@49.1655907,-123.9386119,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x5488a15814a89c2b:0xa00f9e80da1f7296!8m2!3d49.1655907!4d-123.9364232 VIRL's Harbourfront library branch]. Parking: Recommend underground parking under library. Entrance to lot off Front St. or Museum Way. {|class="wikitable"| 8:30 || Doors open|-
| 9:00 || Welcome & Announcements
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| 9:15 || Lightning Talks* Paul Joseph [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UhJWHKf15ZX7fbH1k3odpQ7J- Opening Talk* Linda Woodcock QTrmbepvKefCBXBSMA/edit?usp=sharing Code4libBC: What's an Unconference] - RDA: 10 ThingsCynthia Ng* Mark Jordan The Art of the Kludge - Linked DataJulie Cole* Marcus Emmanuel Barnes Using LibAnswers as an e- SFU Library's METSresource management and ticketing system -Bagger ToolPatricia Pang* Cynthia Ng Breaking Down the IT Silo - Shifting Perspectives: From Disability Accommodation to Universal DesignJeff Narver* Stefan KhanThe Never-Kernahan Ending Wrangle: enabling fulltext search in Supplejack - Course Reserves at UBC* May Chan - Hackfests for the UninitiatedDaniel Sifton
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| 10:30 || Coffee break
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| 10:45 || Schedule JamLightning Talks, cont'd* Children's Coding Gadgets and Early Literacy Skill Development - Code-a-Pillar, Osmo, and Sphero - Caitlin Ottenbreit* Open to change: Migrating to Evergreen - James Fournie / Gwenda Bryan / Dan Sifton / Geoffrey Allen* Digitization challenges for small organizations - Christine Meutzner* Weeding Reports - Trevor Smith* [http://webapp.library.uvic.ca/jdurno/durnos_old_computers_c4lbc_20181128.pdf Retro-computing collection at UVic Libraries] - John Durno
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| 1112:00 || Breakout SessionsLunch (Provided)
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| 1 Hour :00 || Lunch (On Your Own) Breakout Sessions * Hosting Code4libBC - Cynthia Ng, Daniel Sifton . . . * [httphttps://eg2013docs.sitkagoogle.bclibraries.cacom/social-eventsdocument/#thursdayd/1XuxxL6arEcpAzDWnGKTNC7xBH881-lunch SuggestionsDqOSAkuJT_aXW8/edit?usp=sharing Web Archiving Community of Practice]- Dana McFarland / Larissa Ringham
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| 32:15 30 || Break
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| 32:30 45 || Breakout ReportsSessions, cont'd *Excel for Librarians - Trevor Smith*Creativity Commons: Open House - Jason/Jonathan Bigalow
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| 4:00 || Breakout Reports|-| 5:00 || SocialEvent at [http://whitesailsbrewing.com/ White Sails Brewery] with pizza from [http://mambogourmetpizza.com/ Mambo Pizza]* [https://goo.gl/6MM7vv Directions] from VIRL to White Sails
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==== Friday Day 2 ====Events will be held at [https://www2.viu.ca/map/ VIU's Building 305, Room 507] A bus (with a friendly, qualified driver) will pick up attendees from the Coast Bastion on Friday morning at 8:20 am. If needed the bus will return for another load of passengers ~20 minutes later. Parking: Closest is Lot N; some spaces in Lots F & C are short-term; [https://www2.viu.ca/facilities/Campus_Development/Site%20Map%20and%20Info/Site%20Map%20BARRIER%20FREE%20ROUTES%20Nanaimo%20Campus.pdf VIU Parking Map] {|class="wikitable"| 8:30 || Doors open|-
| 9:00 || Announcements
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| 9:15 || Lightning Talks* Mark Jordan Sets with Tommy and Gina : Curation and selection in Supplejack - DOCR/SMDDaniel Sifton* Peter Tyrrell Integrating Point of Sale with your ILS - Parsing PDF into Various FormatsPhilippe Lajoie* John Durno - Uploading to Internet Archive via API* Colleen Bell - Integrating ERM Advocacy & Libguides Content* Jonathan Schatz Digital Licensing - The Story of BC Libraries' IT EnvironmentsEmily Mathews* Sarah Sutherland Legislative Library Tools to Capture Video/Website - RFP Evaluation ProcessCharles Hogg* Calvin Mah [https:/ Todd Holbrook /docs.google.com/presentation/d/18Ohz2bDcVr0FvKppD3q- SFU Library oh6AjS6f3_mPES1mRF4Iww8/edit?usp=sharingWagtail CMS (built on django/python), my experiences getting out of the drupal/wordpress paradigm] - Hours DatabaseDan Lerch
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| 10:30 || Coffee break
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| 10:45 || Schedule JamLightning Talks, cont'd * Patron Counters - James Fournie* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RqSjNxDWnT4-IiqQPP4PyW823R4jOxG4/view Attack of the webforms!] - Paul Burry* ILS cloud migration - Olga Kalachinskaya* Hacking devices - Calvin Mah
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| 1112:00 || Breakout SessionsLunch (Provided)
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| 1 Hour :00 || Lunch (On Your Own) Breakout Sessions* [httphttps://eg2013cynthia.sitkagitlab.bclibraries.caio/socialintro-eventsto-git-and-gitlab/#thursdayLearn to Collaborate and Contribute to Projects on GitLab + with Git!] -lunch SuggestionsCynthia Ng* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oerwPDMnYEHSa5JTnjGzoGOsHXvP9oToJxG11QIfEUI/edit?usp=sharing I '♥' Wikipedia]- Dana McFarland/Andie Tomlinson
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| 32:15 30 || Break
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| 32:30 45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd <!--* Linking video and audio in the Hansard (Expanded/Discussion) - Mike Sinclair* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LyL5AlPTTMW2YMT6-YG2p4iSiYQBA76RFwnH9h3wIyY/edit?usp=sharing All the DOCs]: Documentation and workflows - Cynthia Ng / Tamarack Hockin* Wordpress nightmare - Allison Trumble -->|-| 4:00 || Breakout Reports* Library as platform - Maryann Kempthonre* Cries for help / Tales of fails|-| 5:00 ||Meet up somewhere for drinks <!-- at [http://dev-viusu.pantheonsite.io/students-union-pub/ VIU Student Pub] -->
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=== '''Lightning Talk Proposals''' =Feedback == 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 exposing their locally managed content as Linked Data. One of the types of local data that offers a lot of potential 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 tosurvey 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 kind've 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. === '''Hackfest/Breakout Suggestions''' === 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)
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