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Code4Lib Day 3: Lightning Talks

Mark Matienzo – Wielding the Whip: Affect, Archives, & Ontological Fusion

  • need to talk about emotion – a lot of things going on in my life
  • inspired by Archives by Emotion
  • why do we not acknowledge that archives are based on emotion, stories
  • facebook ‘like’ is not an emotion
  • losing connections to materials and history when not thinking about the platform and how that effects our stories
  • can we write stories about our collections?
  • should be using existing linked data to make those narratives
  • let’s build this
  • Slides
  • Full Write-up

Jason Casden and Cory Lown – My #HuntLibrary

  • student engagement platform
  • how do students use the space?
  • what do they choose to document? – using instagram
  • student-drive archival selection
  • making use, harvesting social media
  • Implemention:
  • moderated, responsive
  • use for public display, can interactive, including larger public display
  • inspired by kitten war: built image battle
  • calculate popularity score
  • also about preservation, collect images
  • go.ncsu.edu/MyHunt

Steven Anderson – JavaScript Streaming Clientside Checksumming w/ HTML5 file upload

  • basic using JavaScript to view checksum
  • and then when files are uploaded
  • Demo: hydratest.bpl.org:3000
  • On GitHub

Will Hicks – Metadata Entry Beyond Usability

  • think back to volunteering to donate blood, etc. what value did it give you?
  • ~300 individuals creating metadata
  • stats have bumped up with a new interface
  • but 10% of the stuff is hidden
  • “usable” forms are great, but little “ownership” and lack of domain expertise
  • what if we applied the ideas used in social media?
  • invite with openID, personalize projects, badges, stats, visualization, etc.

Kelly Lucas – Drupal OPAC Recipe

  • the poor man’s Blacklight or Vufind with Solr backend
  • process:
    • MARC record dump into Solr using SolrMARC
    • install search API, Search API Solr, Facet API, Sarnia and Views from Drupal.org
    • configure Sarnia + FacetAPI (boosts, enable facets)
    • create a view, add some fields, create an exposed filter (full text search box)
    • slap some facets to the side of the page
  • issues: new/updated records requires direct connection to ILS
  • Slides

Karen Coyle – Nerd Poetry

  • cowboy poetry – told around the camp fire

Mark Redar – Django Dublin Core App

  • plugin app
  • on Github
  • RecordExpress – lightweight, easy to use esp. for those not familiar with XML

James Stuart – Taming Email

  •  a really big problem
  • part of your job
  • here’s how to tame email
  • don’t organize: organizing your email is like alphabetizing your recycling
  • mailstrom.co
  • turn keyboard shortcuts on
  • shortcutFoo
  • don’t be distracting
  • bookmark
  • Also take a look at Making Thunderbird More Gmail-y

No Break! Have a Cute Animal Anyway

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Have a Cute White Ermine

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Author Cynthia NgPosted on February 14, 2013October 12, 2024Categories Events, TechnologyTags archives, code4lib, email, HTML5, MARC, metadata, social media

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