Code4lib Day 3: Lightning Talks

David Uspal – Project Grab Bag

Interactive Map

• Javascript baed (for accessibility)
• Data stored in JSON file
• SVG graphic
• Uses the Raphael.js library – just use HTML5 instead
• Search by: ocation, person, call number
• To do:
  • decouple from CMS (Concrete 5)
  • SVG path generation as a web application
  • add more configurable options (colors, etc.)

Tap Tour

• started at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
• easy to create a mobile tour application
• currently iPhone/iPod, plans to expand
• Drupal CMS back-end (new version released 1/25/2012)

Robert Haschart – Adding Publicly-Accessible Hathi Trust Items to Your Solr-based Discovery System

• Assumptions:
  • Solr-based index
  • SolrMarc used for indexing
  • only want publicly-accessible items
  • MARC record based with one Solr record per title
• list of Hathi-items and download
• tweak SolrMarc index specification
• add all Hathi records to your index, and adjust interface code to display records correctly
• download daily updates, merge updates
• Code not yet available

Jeremy Nelson – Aristotle a Django based Discovery Layer

• See it in Action
• originally forked from Kochief
• refactored to use Sunburnt for Solr interactions
• developed custom authentication middleware with Millenium
• did web redesign
• Code on Github

Dennis Schafroth – Turbo MARC in YAZ Library

• Problem: XSL transformation on MARC XML  is slow
• Rule: combined the element with tag/code value when value is allowed
• Pazpar2 became twice as fast
• a lot faster, but not official standard

Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku – Recovery of Minamisanriku Town Library from Tsunami Disaster

• implemented technical support for a library system – thanks to OSS and cloud service
• Amazon’s wish list for books needed from supporters
• library can announce library service and daily activities on Facebook
• Next-L Enju OSS search system

Ed Summers – jobs.code4lib.org

• Jobs are posted
• Tags allow to see all the jobs with that tag
• OpenID log in
• pushes to twitter @code4lib
• pushes to mailing list
• Code on Github

Christopher Spalding – Search in a Blender

• works for ExLibris
• collect results and sort
• works in VuFind and Solr

Erik Hetzner – Strategy for c4l voting

• majoritarian: top-rated talks are chosen
• no representation for small parties
• each voter gets unlimited votes, 0-3 points
• Plurality-at-large
  • 1 vote total
• Cumulative voting
  • number of votes up to talks, but can allow multiple votes
• Hacking
  • the way done now, reduces to plurality at large
• Fix
  • limit points users can assign
  • and/or only users to give one vote to teach talk
  • or adopt a proportional representation system
• Inspire by Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy

Lightning Talks That Didn’t Happen

• Hillel Arnold – Occupy Wall Street Documentation
• Jason Clark – BookMeUp (Book Suggestions App)
• Jason Ronallo – Digital Collections, Crawling, and Aggregating Content