Code4lib Day 2: Lightning Talks

Scott Hanrath – Zotero and SHERPA/RoMEO API mashup

• quick and dirty way to filter a collection of articles by publisher policies
• use Zotero and SHERPA/RoMEO APIs to tag articles with publisher policies
• work flow?
• zotero plugin?
• Code on github

David Walker – Basic Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) Protocol

• Need LMS to pull all the relevant library information, items, etc.
• In LMS, register library tool as if it were a native building block
• When insert into course, make a little iframe of tool
• Hidden form elements post it to tool with data of course, data, security (OAuth)

Peter Murray – Introducing FOSS4LIB.org

• Lyrasis’ response to survey on what librarians wanted
• open source adopters are still in the early adopters stage
• thus, website was created
• determine whether OSS is right for the library including cost
• help to select software
• Call to action: register packages, releases, events, providers

Mark Matienzo – I’ve Got Good News

• C4L11: fiwalk with me – using open source digital forensics software to support pre-digest work
• update of work since then
• pluggable
• could integrate anything
• two working plugins: virus scanner, file format identification against PRONOM
• Code on github
• BitCurator

Mike Durbin – Edge Cases – Digitizing and delivering undescribed items in EAD

• should automate as much of the workflow as possible
• items selected for digitization, scanning, created/updating spreadsheet with ID and sequence, name image files according to ID/sequence
• put it in for automated processing including quality control, files pushed into master file archive, ingested into Fedora, and e-mail is sent to collection manager
• Finally, publication

Ryuuji Yoshimoto – Introducing CALIL.JP, scraping/mashup all of OPACs in JAPAN! PDF Slides

• OPACs have no API
• so start scraping OPACs, fighting with dirty HTML
• 2 months to scrap 200+ OPACs
• CALIL.JP
• realtime holding by through the CALIL API by ISBN, returns XML or JSON
• item information from amazon and Google
• now have many third-party apps e.g. browser extension

Kåre Fiedler Christiansen – Chucking all the software components in a library together to present recorded radio and tv

• built MPEG -> streaming server
• website -> cool design
• cool design, website, streaming server, access control -> cool website
• except lawyers, oh noes!
• PDF Slides

Joel Richard – Introducing Macaw: Metadata Collection Tool for Book-like things

• digitizing lots of book-like things including pamphlets
• most libraries sent to Internet Archive then to the Biodiversity Heritage Library
• but some items too large to fit on usual scanning hardware
• had to use camera, but had to add metadata
• Macaw collects metadata but doesn’t really do workflow
• two views: thumbnails and list
• take data from wherever, using Z39.50 or CSV, into Macaw
• custom export from Macaw, including Internet Archive, the library
• each piece is modular
• Code on Google Code

Rachel Frick – LOD-LAM Incubator Project

• Linked Open Data for Library, Archives, and Museums
• lightweight approach in terms of funding and consultation
• timeline: March – May = recruit panel, fundraising, open comment

Mao Tsunekawa – Project Shizuku : Making Friends in Libraries

• Shizuku 2.0
• software development project in supporting encounters among library users
• not recommending books, recommending users instead
• visualize circulation data for finding other users reading the same books
• can share history of reading books
• developing Baron which allows searching OPAC and then making friends

Keith Folsom – Archivists’ Toolkit Database Server on an Amazon EC2 Instance

• multi-institutional
• hosting on small instance of amazon
• Ubuntu/MySQL
• single open port
• download kit with PuTTY
• going out of pilot

Rebecca Jones – Call for Services

• InnovativeInterfaces
• provide SQL access
• working on RESTful services
• What services would people like to have?
• Live Beta in March