Lightning talks are scheduled on all three days Code4Lib 2011. A lightning talk is a fast-paced 5 minute talk on a topic of your choosing.

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Mark Jason Dominus has a nice page about lightning talks, which includes this summary of why you might want to do one:

Maybe you’ve never given a talk before, and you’d like to start small. For a Lightning Talk, you don’t need to make slides, and if you do decide to make slides, you only need to make three.

Maybe you’re nervous and you’re afraid you’ll mess up. It’s a lot easier to plan and deliver a five minute talk than it is to deliver a long talk. And if you do mess up, at least the painful part will be over quickly.

Maybe you don’t have much to say. Maybe you just want to ask a question, or invite people to help you with your project, or boast about something you did, or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up thirty minutes.

You might also like Mark Fowler’s Advice for Giving a Lightning Talk

Please sign-up for all lightning talks on the code4lib wiki


Tuesday, 4-5pm, Alumni Hall

  1. 5 minutes of OPAC stats that might surprise you, or maybe not -- Bill Dueber
  2. Social Networks and Archival Context - Prototype (Slides) -- Brian Tingle
  3. AjaxyDialog jquery-ui widget -- jonathan rochkind
  4. 2 little EAD gems -- Jason Ronallo
  5. LYRASIS' Open Source Software Efforts -- Peter Murray
  6. UC San Diego Mobile Apps -- Esme Cowles
  7. Blacklight and Hydra at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- Adam Wead
  8. HathiTrust Large Scale Search update -- Tom Burton-West
  9. Open data and the Biodiversity Heritage Library experience -- Trish Rose-Sandler
  10. NDL Search (Slides) -- Kosuke Tanabe
  11. Making integrated search system which your choice - primo central index or summon? (Slides) - Takanori Hayashi

Wednesday, 3:50-5pm, Alumni Hall

  1. EPrints (was: Small Scale Koha) -- Edward Corrado
  2. Summa/Summon: Something, something (merging search results) -- Mads Villadsen, Toke Eskildsen
  3. (Web) Archiving the oil spill – UI changes driven by context -- Tracy Seneca.
  4. User interaction patterns on a touch-screen kiosk (Slides) -- Andreas Orphanides
  5. Two Engineering Projects of LIS at Tsukuba in Japan: Project Shizuku and Project Lie (Slides) -- Haruki Ono -
  6. Better Subject Browsing -- Stephen Meyer
  7. Mobile Web Apps for Library Exhibits - Exhibit Page - Project Page - (Slides) -- Cory Lown
  8. Beyond full-text indexing in "next-generation" library catalogs (renamed: Digital Humanities and Libraries)-- Eric Lease Morgan
  9. Experiences from implementing Ebsco Discovery Service through their Web Service -- Theodor Tolstoy
  10. French Electronic Theses : having oracle & solr working together -- Aurélien Charot, ABES
  11. French Electronic Theses : edit an xml into a form -- Olivier Martinez, ABES
  12. Asian/Pacific American Documentary Heritage Archives Survey -- Hillel Arnold
  13. Does anyone else hate this shit? (metadata and what not) -- Ryan Eby
  14. Let's build a code4lib curriculum - A Guide for the Perplexed -- Bess Sadler

Thursday, 10:15-11:00, Alumni Hall

  1. Your next language -- Chick Markley
  2. Generating a Sitemap from a Solr Index -- David Uspal
  3. Dot Porter - Text Image Linking Environment, an editing tool for scholars
  4. Build Mobile Library on Drupal with Library Website -- Shian Chang
  5. Scherzo, a FRBR based music search tool -- Alex Berry
  6. Freshmen, Zombies, and Libraries -- Andrea Schurr
  7. Something that web designer/developer would need to consider -- Ranti Junus