The Avalon Media System: A Next Generation Hydra Head For Audio and Video Delivery

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EAD without XSLT: A Practical New Approach to Web-Based Finding Aids

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Hacking the DPLA

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• Nate Hill, Chattanooga Public Library, nathanielhill AT gmail.com
• Sam Klein, Wikipedia, metasj AT gmail.com

The Digital Public Library of America is a growing open-source platform to support digital libraries and archives of all kinds. DPLA-alpha is available for testing, with data from six initial Hubs. New APIs and data feeds are in development, with the next release scheduled for April.

Come learn what we are doing, how to contribute or hack the DPLA roadmap, and how you (or your favorite institution) can draw from and publish through it. Larger institutions can join as a (content or service) hub, helping to aggregate and share metadata and services from across their {region, field, archive-type}. We will discuss current challenges and possibilities (UI and API suggestions wanted!), apps being built on the platform, and related digitization efforts.

DPLA has a transparent community and planning process; new participants are always welcome. Half the time will be for suggestions and discussion. Please bring proposals, problems, partnerships and possible paradoxes to discuss.

Pitfall! Working with Legacy Born Digital Materials in Special Collections

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ARCHITECTING ScholarSphere: How We Built a Repository App That Doesn't Feel Like Yet Another Janky Old Repository App

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Oregon State University and the Digital Library Federation are sponsoring five scholarships to promote gender and cultural diversity. Each scholarship will provide up to $1,000 to cover travel costs and conference fees for one qualified attendee to attend the 2013 Code4Lib Conference, which will be held in Chicago, Illinois, from Monday,February 11 through Thursday, February 14. The Code4Lib scholarship committee will award two scholarships per category, awarding the remaining scholarship to the best remaining candidate in either category. The Code4Lib scholarship committee will award these scholarships based on merit and need.

The Code4Lib Conference Planning Group is calling for
proposals to host the 2013 Code4Lib Conference.  Information on the
kind of venue we seek and the delineation of responsibilities between
the host organization and the Planning Group can be found at the
conference hosting web page [1] and on the Code4Lib Wiki [2].

The deadline for proposals is Sunday January 22, 2012. The
decision will be made over the course of the following weeks by a
popular vote.  Voting will begin on or around Wednesday January 25,
2012 and will continue through the first three days of Code4Lib 2012 until
11:59PM Pacific on Wednesday, February 8th. The results of the vote will be
announced on Thursday, February 9th, the final day of Code4Lib 2012.
You can apply by making your pitch to the Code4Lib Conference Planning
list [3]; attention to the criteria listed on the conference hosting
page is appreciated.  May the best site win!

Feel free to take a look at the winning proposal from 2012
https://sites.google.com/site/code4lib2012seattle/

and past hosting proposals from 2011 for ideas:

https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/display/EVENTS/Code4Lib+2011+Proposal
http://www.library.yale.edu/~dlovins/c4l/code4lib2011.html
http://sites.google.com/site/code4libvancouver2011

and

1. http://code4lib.org/conference/hosting
2. http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/How_To_Plan_A_Code4LibCon
3. code4libcon@googlegroups.com

 
Oregon State University and the Digital Library Federation are sponsoring five scholarships to promote gender and cultural diversity. Each scholarship will provide up to $1,000 to cover travel costs and
conference fees for one qualified attendee to attend the 2012 Code4Lib Conference, which will be held in Seattle, Washington, from Monday,February 6 through Thursday, February 9.

The Code4Lib scholarship committee will award two scholarships per category, awarding the remaining scholarship to the best remaining candidate in either category. The Code4Lib scholarship committee will
award these scholarships based on merit and need.
 

ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants, if eligible, may apply for both scholarships, but no applicant will receive more than one scholarship. Past winners of either scholarship are not eligible for either scholarship. Scholarship recipients will be required to write a short trip report to be submitted to the scholarships committee by February 17, 2012.
 

CONFERENCE INFO:
For more information on the Code4Lib Conference, please see the conference website: http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/
 
and write-ups of previous Code4Lib Conferences:

The schedule for the 2012 Code4Lib Conference in Seattle, Washington.

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Monday, February 6

Pre-Conference day overview:

08:00-09:00 - Registration / coffee

09:00-16:30 - Full Day sessions

Developing applications using REST web services

09:00-12:00 - Morning sessions

Linkfest | wiki page for notes, etc

What's New in Solr

Knocking Down Silos: Tools and Approaches for Simplifying Discovery

12:00-13:30 - Lunch (on your own)

13:30-16:30 - Afternoon sessions

Git -r done

Blacklight

DACS and EAD Overview

Digging into metadata: context, code, and collaboration

"Geo"

16:15-21:00 - Evening session

Microsoft Campus Visit

Conference Program

Tuesday, February 7

08:00-09:00 - Registration / Continental Breakfast

09:00-09:15 - Welcome

09:15-10:00 - Keynote #1 - Dan Chudnov

10:00-10:20 - Break (beverage service only)

10:20-10:40 - Beyond code: Versioning data with Git and Mercurial. (Stephanie Collett and Martin Haye) - Slides

10:40-11:00 - "Linked-Data-Ready" Software for Libraries - Slides

11:00-11:20 - Your Catalog in Linked Data - Slides

11:20-11:40 - HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org - Slides

11:40-12:00 - ALL TEH METADATAS! or How we use RDF to keep all of the digital object metadata formats thrown at us. SLIDES

12:00-13:00 - Lunch (provided)

13:00-13:20 - HathiTrust Large Scale Search: Scalability meets Usability - Slides

13:20-13:40 - Relevance Ranking in the Scholarly Domain - Slides

13:40-14:00 - Kill the search button II - the handheld devices are coming

14:00-14:20 - Design for Developers - Slides

14:20-14:40 - The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion): Building a Socially Constructed Archive of Grateful Dead Artifacts - Slides

14:40-15:00 - Break (beverage service only)

15:00-15:50 - Breakout Sessions 1

15:50-16:10 - Break (beverage service only)

16:10-16:20 - Breakout reports

16:20-17:20 - Lightning Talks 1

17:20-17:30 - Daily wrap-up

18:00-20:00 - Newcomer dinners

Wednesday, February 8

08:00-09:00 - Continental Breakfast

09:00-09:15 - Housekeeping, Introductions

09:15-09:35 - Discovering Digital Library User Behavior with Google Analytics - Slides

09:35-09:55 - How people search the library from a single search box - Slides

09:55-10:15 - Building research applications with Mendeley - Slides

10:15-10:35 - Break (beverage service only)

10:35-10:55 - Stack View: A Library Browsing Tool - Slides

10:55-11:15 - NoSQL Bibliographic Records: Implementing a Native FRBR Datastore with Redis - Slides

11:15-12:00 - Ask Anything!

12:00-13:00 - Lunch (provided)

13:00-13:20 - Indexing big data with Tika, Solr & map-reduce - Slides

13:20-13:40 - In-browser data storage and me - Slides

13:40-14:00 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Lines of Code Per Day - Slides

14:00-14:20 - Practical Agile: What's Working for Stanford, Blacklight, and Hydra (Slides as PDF) (Slides as PowerPoint)

14:20-14:30 - Break (beverage service only)

14:30-15:40 - Breakout Sessions 2

15:40-15:50 - Break (beverage service only)

15:50-16:00 - Breakout reports

16:00-17:00 - Lightning Talks 2

17:00-17:15 - Daily wrap-up

18:00-20:00 - Social network dine-arounds

Thursday, February 9

08:00-09:00 - Continental Breakfast

09:00-09:15 - Housekeeping

09:15-10:00 - Keynote #2 - Bethany Nowviskie

10:00-10:15 - Break (beverage service only)

10:15-11:00 - Lightning Talks 3

11:00-11:20 - Your UI can make or break the application (to the user, anyway) - Slides

11:20-11:40 - Quick and Dirty Clean Usability: Rapid Prototyping with Bootstrap

11:40-12:00 - Search Engine Relevancy Tuning - A Static Rank Framework for Solr/Lucene - Slides

12:00-12:20 - Wrap-Up

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The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle.

The Orbis Cascade Alliance and the University of Washington Libraries welcome you to the 2012 Code4Lib Conference in Seattle.

Code4lib 2012 is a loosely-structured conference for library technologists to commune, gather/create/share ideas and software, be inspired, and forge collaborations.
 

When: February 6-9, 2012 (Feb. 6 Preconference)
Where: Renaissance Seattle (reservations)
Who: You!
Why: Because you know you want to!
 

Conference Schedule
 

Registration fee: $150 (Registration form now open!)
 

Location and Travel
Venue: Renaissance Seattle 515 Madison Street, Seattle WA, 98104. (reservations)
 

Conference Hotel Room Rates:
Conference rates are $159 for single or double occupancy.
Online reservations on the Renaissance Seattle Reservations website.
 

Transportation:
Airport: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)
Ground transportation to/from airport:

• SoundTransit Link Light Rail and Bus Service
• Shuttle Express van service
• Taxi service available from the airport, approximate fare, $40
• For more Transportation information
• Rideshare/Roomshare

For things to do in Seattle Visit here. Or consult and contribute to Social Activities
 

Event tag: c4l12
 

Want to help plan the conference?
To participate in the planning, see c4l wiki.
Read the Seattle proposal.
 

Sponsors:
Code4Lib thanks the following sponsors for their generous commitments:

Platinum Ex Libris; Indiana University/Kuali Foundation; OCLC; Oregon State University

Gold Digital Library Federation; Elsevier B.V.; Penn State University

Silver Index Data; Innovative Interfaces; Lyrasis; Microsoft Research; Serials Solutions

Bronze Discovery Garden; DuraSpace; Equinox; Mendeley; Princeton University

For more information on conference sponsorship and sponsorship levels to to the Code4Lib 2012 Sponsorship page.
 

Scholarships
Oregon State University and the Digital Library Federation are sponsoring five scholarships to promote gender and cultural diversity. See how to apply.
 

Book Donations: Ada's Technical books; Chandos Publishing; No Starch; O'Reilly; oXygen XML Editor

Local Organizing Committee:
Kyle Banerjee, Digital Services Program Manager, Orbis Cascade Alliance
Elizabeth Duell, Administrative Assistant, Orbis Cascade Alliance
Karen Estlund, Digital Collections Coordinator, University of Oregon Libraries.
Anjanette Young, Systems Librarian, University of Washington Libraries.
Ann Lally, Head of Digital Initiatives, University of Washington Libraries.
Jennifer Ward, Head of Web Services, University of Washington Libraries.
Corey Murata, Business Computer-Based Services Librarian, University of Washington Libraries.
Ann Gleason, Systems Head, Health Sciences Library, University of Washington Libraries.