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* Harrison Dekker, University of California, Berkeley, hdekker@library.berkeley.edu
[http://cran.r-project.org/ R ] is a popular, powerful , and extensible open source statistical analysis application. [http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/rapache/ Rapache], software developed at Vanderbilt University, allows web developers to leverage the numeric processing data analysis and graphical visualization capabilities of R in real-time through simple Apache server requests. This presentation will provide an overview of both R and rapache and will explore how these tools are relevant might be used to develop applications for the library community.
== Metadata editing - a truly extensible solution ==
* Jose Aguera, Universitty of North Carolina, jose.aguera@gmail.com
HIVE is a toolkit that assists users in selecting vocabulary and ontology terms to annotate digital content. The HIVE approach promises to combine combines the ease of folksonomies with the rigor of traditional vocabularies. Users can By combining semantic web standards with text mining techniques, HIVE will improve the effectiveness of subject metadata generation, allowing users to search and browse through terms from a variety of vocabularies and ontologies in one integrated tool. Documents can be submitted to HIVE for automatic analysis, resulting in a set of to automatically generate suggested vocabulary terms.
Your system can interact with common vocabularies such as LCSH and MESH via the central HIVE server, or you can install a local copy of HIVE with your own custom set of vocabularies. This talk will give an overview of the current features of HIVE and describe how to build tools that use the HIVE services.
* Kenny Ketner, Texas Tech University Libraries, kenny.ketner@ttu.edu
Developing with the facebook platform can be both exciting and something that you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. This talk will chronicle the Texas Tech Libraries Development Team experimentation with Facebook Open Platform (fbOpen) as we attempt to create a facebook-like social media application for Texas Digital Tech University Libraries , hopefully expanding to the Texas Digital Library (TDL).
More than just a facebook app or page, fbOpen is a complete implementation of the facebook system on a LAMP stack – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP – which must be maintained by the institution itself. This project is at an early stage, so emphasis will be placed on the challenges of installation, configuration, and testing, as well as the pros and cons for institutions that are considering taking on a similar project.
== Kurrently Kochief ==
* Gabriel Farrell, Drexel University Libraries, gsf24@drexel.edu
Kochief is a discovery interface and catalogue manager. It rests on Solr and a
Python stack including Django, pymarc, and rdflib. We're using it to highlight
a few collections at Drexel. They live at http://sets.library.drexel.edu.
I'll talk about the latest and greatest, including advances in the install and
configuration, details considered in the searcher's experience, and the
sourcing and exposing of Linked Data.
== Fedora Commons Repository Workflow with Drupal 6 and SCXML ==
* Scott Hammel, Clemson University, scott@clemson.edu
Clemson is building an enterprise architecture repository to support the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture framework. Using Drupal 6 and Fedora Commons Repository and inspired by Islandora, we've written a module for Drupal that supports artifact governance workflow. Workflow is represented as a state machine stored as SCXML in datastreams on digital objects.
I will talk about the solution, challenges, standards and how workflow, governance, state, and policy are stored and manipulated as content on digital objects.
== Forging Connections: Current uses of SRU ==
* T. Michael Silver, MLIS Student at the University of Alberta, michael.silver@ualberta.ca
Search / Retrieve via URL (SRU) has been touted as the next generation of the Z39.50 protocol. Its use of HTTP communication and XML data formats were designed to allow greater integration with other online resources. In October and November 2009, I interviewed seven SRU administrators from libraries, not-for-profit and for-profit organizations to gain insights into their experiences with the protocol.
The results from this small study show that SRU is being used as more than a replacement for Z39.50. Instead, it is also being used to create connections between information resources and users by leveraging the protocol’s use of web standards. My presentation will focus on reporting the topics which emerged during the interviews, ranging from the history and future of information retrieval to differing views on SRU’s relationship with federated search, OpenSearch and other web protocols.
==Extending EZProxy for Fun and Profit==
* Brice Stacey, University of Massachusetts Boston, brice.stacey@umb.edu
EZProxy is much more than just an authentication tool for remote access to library resources. As middleware between electronic resources and patrons, EZProxy is the the backbone from which many applications may be built. Potential uses include monitoring resource use to enhance collection development decisions, injecting context-sensitive information and links to tutorials in a branded toolbar for the duration of a session, and using EZProxy as a single sign-on server. These three ideas alone could streamline the user experience, allow for more granular library instruction and increase awareness of what is actually important to users.
In this session I'd also like to initiate a discussion about the creation of a collaborative site for EZProxy administrators. The proposed site would feature a private workspace to manage EZProxy configurations, drawn from a public repository of database definitions and authentication schemes. Additionally, the site would be an ideal environment for developing additional applications as described above.
== Micro Library Apps: Building library functionality into the Google Gadget platform ==
* Jason A. Clark, Head of Digital Access and Web Services, Montana State University Libraries, jaclark@montana.edu
With implementations of the OpenSocial standard, complete functionality within Google Wave, and a huge user base actively using iGoogle, Google Gadgets and the Gadgets API can be used as an emerging platform for bite-sized pieces of library services and applications.
MSU Libraries has applied Google Gadget API technology to allow users to create their own dashboards or waves filled with library content modules. In this session we will demonstrate a wide range of gadgetry including, but not limited to: tabbed gateway searching of catalogs and databases, flash-animated library subject maps, a customized database gateway, a digital collections app gadget, a feed aggregator for library data streams, and a gadget for campus maps and street views.
[http://www.lib.montana.edu/tools/gadgets.php http://www.lib.montana.edu/tools/gadgets.php]
We'll talk through the anatomy of a Google Gadget, the possibilities for the API and its use in library settings, and the XML, Javascript, HTML, and occasional PHP that make it go.
== Can't We All Just Get Along? ==
* Ryan Scherle, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, rscherle@nescent.org
One of the greatest challenges of a large project is bringing together people from different traditions and getting them to work together. Most Code4Lib attendees are accustomed to working with a team of librarians, technologists, and subject specialists. Working with teams from multiple institutions and multiple disciplines increases the level of complexity, particularly when some teams have a history of maintaining their own discipline-specific technology solutions.
[http://dataone.org DataONE] is a collaborative repository of scientific data being developed by a group of more than 20 organizations. It will combine contents from a diverse set of scientific repositories, covering many disciplines, metadata schemes, and usage policies.
I will give an overview of the DataONE project and its technical architecture, focusing on the architectural design process and techniques for overcoming the differences between the participating repositories. I will also outline the steps required if you want to connect a new repository to the DataONE system.
== Data for all: facilitating access to reference transaction data using web-based tools ==
* David Dahl, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Towson University, ddahl@towson.edu
Like many libraries, Towson University’s Albert S. Cook Library uses a homegrown web application to record reference transaction statistics into a Microsoft Access database. (Ours is informally called StatsTracker.) Previously this collected data was only available in a raw format within the database, limiting its usefulness to just 1 or 2 staff with knowledge of querying an Access database. These individuals were frequently asked to compile data to aid in the department’s decision-making. A recent initiative to make this data more publicly accessible (to internal staff) motivated the creation of a suite of web-based tools that aggregate and analyze collected data in order to make up-to-the-minute statistics available for use by the Reference Department. Using a combination of ASP.net, SQL, Microsoft Chart Controls, and the Visual Web Developer (VWD) application for development, the StatsTracker Analysis Toolkit makes reference transaction data accessible and usable by any member of the department.
This session will cover the development process, demonstrate how VWD facilitated development, and present possibilities for further use of this combination of tools.
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