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* Bill Levay, wjlevay@gmail.com, Linked Jazz Project
How can we take semi-structured but messy metadata from a repository like CONTENTdm and transform it into rich linked data? Working with metadata from Tulane’s Hogan Jazz Archive Photography Collection, the Linked Jazz Project used Open Refine and Python scripts to tease out proper names, match them with name authority URIs, and specify FOAF relationships between musicians who appear together in photographs. Additional RDF triples were created for any dates associated with the photos, and for those images with place information we employed GeoNames URIs. Historical images and data that were siloed can now interact with other datasets, like Linked Jazz’s rich set of names and personal relationships, and can be visualized [link to come[http://linkedjazz.org/tulane/ see prototype visualization]] or otherwise presented on the web in any number of ways. I have not previously presented at a Code4Lib conference.
== Taking User Experience (UX) to new heights ==
== Consuming Big Linked Open Data in Practice: Authority Shifts and Identifier Drift ==
* Kathryn Stine, katstine@berkeley.edu, UC Berkeley(first-time presenter)* Stephanie Collett, stephanie.collett@ucop.edu, California Digital Library, UC(c4l 2012 presenter)
Increasingly, authoritative datasets of interest to libraries (subjects, names, classifications, etc.) are are available in bulk, exposed as linked open data. Unfettered access can allow libraries to aggregate, connect, and augment data in new ways that will benefit users. This talk will describe our exploratory experience integrating bulk data from the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) into HathiTrust metadata to improve discovery and collection management.
Authoritative data is not static - datasets change with new contributions and re-clustering, resulting in new identifier relationships. We will describe the challenges this presents with accessing, processing, and syncing our metadata with a massive, complex linked dataset. We will talk about our technical approach to navigating an ecosystem of identifiers and mitigating cached identifier drift between systems as authority data shifts. We aim to spark conversation about data accessibility and the relationships between local, consortial, and authoritative metadata as the library community moves beyond “Hello, world” linked data examples to integrating this data at scale into existing systems.
== Your Chocolate is in My Peanut Butter! Mixing up Content and Presentation Layers to Build Smarter Books in Browsers with RDFa, Schema.org, and Linked Data Topics ==
* Jason A. Clark [@jaclark], Head, Library Informatics & Computing, Montana State University, jaclark@montana.edu
* Scott W. H. Young [@hei_scott], Digital Initiatives Librarian, Montana State University, swyoung@montana.edu
Common methods of publishing book content have focused on various implementations of existing technologies such as LaTeX, Markdown, and .epub. A common theme within this development has been the separation of presentation layers and content layers. What if there was another way? In responding to that question, we’ll look at our local @msulibrary prototype software funded by an IMLS Sparks! Innovation grant for presenting books inside of web browsers (https://github.com/jasonclark/bib-template). Our talk will focus on the tools and technologies of open web publishing. We’ll consider the strange and wonderful benefits of integrating the presentation layer and content layer using semantic RDFa HTML5 markup, and we’ll demonstrate how describing and displaying books within an open web model impacts discovery, eBook production, and machine-readability.
Our session will include:
* The benefits of using RDFa, Schema.org, and linked data models for book production
* How structured data models for book content can turn your webpage into your API
* Analyze the effects of this practice for machine-understanding, SEO, and UX
* Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this model as it applies to a range of book genres, including web book prototypes for fiction and poetry.
Chocolate/Peanut Butter... RDFa/HTML5... Linked Data/Dbpedia Topics... "Great tastes that go great together."
== Integration/Collaboration: Playing Well With Others ==
* Sarah Romkey, sromkey@artefactual.com, Artefactual Systems
* Justin Simpson, jsimpson@artefactual.com, Artefactual Systems
There are many different software applications and systems being used in collecting institutions to handle all aspects of managing their digital collections. Within a single institution, it is possible to have several tools with overlapping functionality. Sometimes the biggest gains in functionality and productivity come from a focus on connecting these systems together.
In this talk we will present several examples of integration and collaboration that we have been involved in while working on the Archivematica project. Examples of integrations with both open source and proprietary systems, as well as examples of collaborative development processes.
== BYOB: Build Your Own Bootstrap ==
* Axa Mei Liauw, aliauw@princeton.edu, Princeton University Library
* Kevin Reiss, kr2@princeton.edu, Princeton University Library
Bootstrap is awesome! It allows for quick and easy front-end development without demanding too much time with the design of the user interface. A framework like Bootstrap can also help libraries address one of our top usability problems: wild inconsistency of styles and layouts across our own in-house applications and websites.
However, what if you do not want to compromise your creativity and make your project visually stand out? With enough Sass or Less knowledge it is possible to highly customize Bootstrap to fit your needs, but in the end you still end up with your design and code buying into Bootstrap's markup and design conventions, which are not always what you want. Sometimes you simply want to start with a clean slate and not fight the framework and use only the components and features you need.
In that case, build your own Bootstrap! In this talk we will discuss techniques for using some of the emerging tools from the front-end development and design communities to create a maintainable, modular in-house Sass toolkit that we are implementing within a variety of tools including Drupal, Rails applications, in house PHP applications, as well as within vendor solutions like Libguides and ILLiad. Some specific tools we will discuss are Grunt, Bower, and Sass tools like Singularity, Breakpoint, and Bourbon.
== Plz to let me download this ebook: an idea for better leisure reading access ==
* Lauren Ajamie, lajamie@nd.edu, University of Notre Dame
(I haven't presented at Code4Lib before)
The landscape of finding and getting fiction (and non-fiction for leisure reading) has changed dramatically in the past few years, and one of the most disruptive new developments could turn out to be Oyster, a "Netflix for books" ebook subscription. While somewhat expensive and with a developing selection of materials, the platform is amazingly easy to use, and makes finding and reading ebooks a two step process: find a book, start reading. Compare this to getting ebooks (or even print books) from your library, a process which could take multiple user names and up to a dozen steps. For both the future of libraries, and my own selfish desires, I want to make this better! This speculative talk will discuss an idea I have (that I will need help with) to make finding and borrowing leisure reading materials less frustrating, and will hopefully result in a library-wide conversation about the discovery of, and access to, leisure reading materials.
== Formats For All! The Future of the Archivematica Format Policy Registry ==
* Misty De Meo, mdemeo@artefactual.com, Artefactual Systems (first-time talk submitter)
Archivematica's Format Policy Registry (FPR) is an open-source preservation planning tool. The FPR is designed to abstract away many of the challenges involved in identifying file formats, as well as picking the right tools to use to perform tasks like metadata extraction, format transformation and normalization.
The first part of this talk will focus on the FPR's structure and its capabilities, but this isn't just a vendor pitch. The current version of the registry is only designed around Archivematica's usecases, but we want to bring the FPR to the world and make it work great for other software too. Share your format policies between Archivematica, Islandora, and Hydra! Share your file IDs between applications so you never misidentify a file again! Build new software without having to worry about the details of how to run external tools on files! The second part of the talk will focus on possible future developments, how the FPR might change, and what a community effort to bring the FPR forward might look like.
== PeerLibrary – Facilitating the global conversation on academic literature ==
* Timothy Quach, UC Berkeley
* Rachel Wolfsohn, UC Berkeley, rachel at peerlibrary.org
* Mitar Milutinovic, UC Berkeley, mitar.code4lib at peerlibrary.org
* Not presented or attended code4lib before
We present [https://peerlibrary.org/ PeerLibrary] as an example of how to intertwine various tools and methods to spread the conversation about academic publications. PeerLibrary is unique because of our collaborative annotation and discussions layer integrated with the in-browser PDF viewer. PeerLibrary provides tools to annotate and comment directly on the works. Users can highlight important information and take notes in the margins online, just as how one would mark up a physical research paper.
Our vision is a virtual space spans the horizontal of all academic knowledge, where individuals across the globe can connect and learn things only another human can help teach. PeerLibrary can be used as a system for depositing original work, archive navigation, to help organize conferences and journals, as a reference manager, a social network to follow what others are doing, for proposing/recommending connections, collaboration, reading, commenting, organizing or sharing papers. PeerLibrary is a platform that synthesizes an online repository and those who utilize it. Our longer-term goal is for PeerLibrary to become a web-first standards-based publication platform. We believe that all stages of research should be collaborative, from the idea, to experiments, conclusions and publication (constant feedback).
To achieve this vision we are working with partners. Such as [http://www.contentmine.org/ ContentMine], to push facts they mine in academic publications into commons available through PeerLibrary. We use Internet Archive to permanently store open access publications and public annotations for future generations. We are using code developed at projects [http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] and [http://annotateit.org/ Annotator] to ensure compatibility with other annotation projects and platforms. We are also using the [http://meteor.com/ Meteor framework], [http://lens.elifesciences.org/ eLife Lens], [https://github.com/guardian/scribe The Guardian Scribe] and [https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js Mozilla PDF.js]. Our presentation will be an exploration of how these organizations are contributing to the Open Scholarship initiative.
With no subscription or registration needed, anybody can easily access the annotations in PeerLibrary. By eliminating the need to print files, the research process is contained in one online medium, creating a greater sense of organization. Furthermore, note-taking tools encourage active analysis, a recording of insights and questions while reading. Users can choose to keep their highlights and annotations private, or they can make them public to engage in an open online discussion. We believe that the collection of tools provided in PeerLibrary will make education more inclusive.
See it live here: https://peerlibrary.org/
Project presentation: https://vimeo.com/93085636
Screencast: https://vimeo.com/109787685
