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

  • Creating an Academic Image Collection with Flickr - Mark Dahl & Jeremy McWilliams
    • View Video on Google
    • Slides
    • 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
    • Slides
    • 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 5 minutes - Calvin Mah & Siavash Miri
  • 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
  • Scriblio -- Casey Bisson
  • Facebook -- John Nowlin
  • Bringing Sheetmusic To Life -- Andrew Bullen
  • The Hub and Spoke Framework: Interoperability and Collection of Preservation Metadata for Digital Repository Content - Thomas Habing
    • Slides
    • View Video on Google Video
    • repository interroperability
    • uses extensible METS profile - designed to have additional profiles layered on it
    • LRCRUD service - packages usable by a repository's native ingestion routines

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

  • Rails vim - Noel Peden
    • View Video on Google Video
    • The rails.vim plugin home page (See the YouTube demo, an About.com tutorial, or another tutorial)
    • This file (vim.tgz) contains my .vimrc, my .vim folder (containing the rails.vim, project.vim, minibufexpl.vim, and other plugins), .screenrc and split screen file. Notes:
      • My .vimrc file is set up for the following:
        • To close a buffer, use :BD, not :q. The latter does not account for window layout.
        • Ctrl-h,j,k,l is mapped to switch windows. Normally you'd hit Ctrl-w followed by h,j,k,l.
        • To avoid having to save a file every time you switch a buffer, autowrite is enabled, meaning a file is saved when you move away from it.
        • F12 toggles the project window, F8 toggles the tag window.
        • Ctags is expected for taglist.vim. Uninstall as needed.
      • Using .screenrc and .screenrc.split: None of this needs to be changed much, and tutorials on Gnu screen are ubiquitous on the web. .screenrc.split shows how to start your server, split the screen, tail the development log, and start vim. To use, call screen -c ~/.screenrc.split in your rails directory.
      • Notes:
        • When you open a file from the minibuf area or the project area, the file will open in the last window used. This can really screw things up if you've moved from tags to project, etc. This is the major weakness of vim as an IDE, but you can be more aware of where you move.
        • The rails.vim plugin is only activated if you open a file in a rails application.
        • You may want to update all of the plugins. Ruby and rails syntax files can be updated with 'sudo gem install vim-ruby --remote'.
  • Web Archiving Service - Mike Wooldridge, California Digital Library
  • Citation parsing made easy - Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library
  • An introduction to #code4lib - Jodi Schneider and Jonathan Gorman
  • Two invitations - Richard Wallis, Talis
  • HOWTO meet people and have fun at code4lib, or how to get your groove back - Mark Matienzo
  • Selenium, a Firefox IDE - Jon Phipps

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

Please transcribe one, if you have time!