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Code4libcon 2008 Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks 1 (Tuesday 16:15-17:30)

  • Creating an Academic Image Collection with Flickr - Mark Dahl & Jeremy McWilliams
    • View Video on Google
    • http://library.lclark.edu/flickr/
    • ceramics collections onto flickr
    • they create flickr accounts and upload images
    • they then use the academic site to catalog their images and assign a CC license and submit to the flickr group
    • fancy collection site will facilitate browsing the collection by various controlled fields - or they can use a site that hasn't been built yet to browse fields
    • why flickr api - lots of image management tools - not in contentdm
  • eIFL-FOSS - Bess Sadler
  • Scientific data curation - Nate Vack
  • eXtensible catalog - Jennifer Bowen, U. of Rochester
    • View Video on Google
    • XC - extensible catalog
    • revealing library content through cms and learning management systems
    • funding from mellon & u of rochester
    • have lots of partners (too many to list)
    • will work alongside an ILS
    • http://www.extensiblecatalog.info/
    • help users find information where they already are (like in blackboard)
    • they have hired 4 developers - and need one more
    • they will be creating a non-profit org to sustain the project
    • release as OS in July 2009
  • User Assessment / Reality Check: User Assessment in Web Archiving - Tracy Seneca
  • BibApp Update - Eric Larson
    • View Video on Google
    • http://code.google.com/p/bibapp
    • wants - comprehensive (non-tenured) tenured what non-comprehensive...
    • development - using Solr (voodoo doughnuts)
    • authorities - having Solr showed them that their data was very ugly
    • 48 faculty = 1300 unique publication strings - but the problem is that they aren't authorized so it's really 4508 unique author strings for 48 faculty
    • JCDL http://jcdl2008.org
  • Steaming Pylons - Bill Erickson, ESI
  • The Atom Publishing Protocol Will Teach You REST & HTTP - Keith Fahlgren, O'Reilly Media
  • JPEG2000 to Zoomify Shim : Creating JPEG tiles from JPEG2000 images - Peter Murray, OhioLINK
    • View Video on Google Video
    • believes JPEG2000 is better than TIFF as a viable long term preservation format
    • didn't want to triple/quadruple disk space requirements
    • didn't want to log into vendor specific format
    • Uses Java 1.5+, Zoomify, and Kakadu JPEG2000 library
    • jpeg2000 lets you get at many different zoom factors
    • system requirements - java 1.5 or greater
    • they chose the zoomify - commercial version for features that they may or may no have needed
    • need kakadu jpeg2000 library kakadusoftware.com
    • https://drc-dev.ohiolink.edu/svn/j2kTileRenderer/trunk/
    • http://dltj.org/article/introducing-j2kTileRenderer
  • Installing OJS in
  • Library Content Management System -- Karen Coombs
  • World Digital Library - Dan Chudnov
    • View Video on Google Video
    • UNESCO project, demo sponsored by Google
    • To make important cultural objects available in digital form
    • Materials from 7-10 countries, spanning >1000 years
    • 200 items currently available
    • aiming to be live in about a year with a couple thousand items
    • Python, Django, PostgreSQL, TileCache, METS, XLIFF, JQuery, CLDR, Babel
    • http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/

Lightning Talks 2 (Wednesday 16:15-17:30)

  • Advanced Tagging - Albert? , University of Michigan
  • JesterJS - Michael Klein, Boston Public Library
  • Blacklight, Bess Sadler
    • View Video on Google Video
    • OPAC replacement
    • uses Solr
    • University of Virginia Library
    • http://blacklight.betech.virginia.edu
    • supports native unicode
    • http://blacklight.rubyforge.org
  • kobold chieftan talk -- Gabe Farell, Mark Matienzo
    • View Video on Google Video
    • Slides
    • aka -- fac-back-opac
    • http://code.google.com/p/fac-back-opac
    • aka -- open source endeca
    • http://fruct.us/kctalk (all links)
    • faceted online open access catalog
  • archivists' toolkit - mark matienzo
    • View Video on Google Video
    • Slides
    • os relational database application for back office archival functions
    • http://matienzo.org/talks/20080227/
    • centralized way to create/maintain metadata for archival resources
    • ingests variety of metadata - no more hand coding EAD
    • http://archiviststoolkit.org
  • Erlang - Devon Smith
  • CDRIP -- Harrison Dekker
    • View Video on Google
    • Rip CD-ROMs to ISO on disk
    • Provide access via a VMware instance
    • Looking to provide access through an openly available desktop viewing client like VNC
  • Git, distributed version control -- Galen Charlton, LibLime
    • View Video on Google Video
    • Slides
    • version control system
    • named after it's creator
    • used by Koha project
    • diff from cvs and subversion is it's distributed nature - not just one repository - each checkout is an entire repository
    • easy tool to use
    • no special committers
  • Jangle -- Ross Singer
    • View Video on Google Video
    • OSS Project
    • Talis trying to get the ball rolling - but not a Talis project
    • http://code.google.com/p/jangle/
    • project intended to help get things done, no push an agenda
    • whatever it takes to get the data out
    • Ruby using Rack
    • Google Group jangle-discuss
  • The Hub and Spoke Framework: Interoperability and Collection of Preservation Metadata for Digital Repository Content - Thomas Habing

Lightning Talks 3 (Thursday 11:00-11:45)

Ray Schwartz from the William Peterson University, took pictures of the lists:

* Day1: http://flickr.com/photos/schwartzray/2305473580/

* Day2: http://flickr.com/photos/schwartzray/2305482838/

* Day3: http://flickr.com/photos/schwartzray/2304693619/

Please transcribe one, if you have time!

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