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Code4Lib North: Day 2 Afternoon Notes

Afternoon of lightning talks

Data Visualization for Navigating on a Sea of Linked Data

F. Tim Knight

  • e.g. CKN data cloud
  • how do we figure out where we are?
  • what ideas do you have?
  • schema.org
  • feel like out of space because don’t have a document as context
  • Microsoft Academic: visualization of collaboration between authors
  • visualization based on FRBR model
  • do have to start at a node somewhere
  • reference to Cory Harper’s code4lib national talk

Syncing Zotero with WebDav

David Fiander

  • limit to 200-300 articles if using Zotero storage
  • but if support WebDAV e.g. box.com to sync articles/docs over the cloud

How to Talk to Tech People About Tech Problems

Liam Whalen

  • Do you have specific requests?
  • building a new system: determine outcomes, what will the system do? can you describe some of these things?
  • tech person should probe into any ambiguities [kind of like a reference interview!]
  • Why does this happen? sometimes technologists disconnected from the people they are trying to help, sometimes too focused on problem
  • ultimately own responsibility, but in the non-technologists’ interests to take an active role in helping to design systems
  • nothing is impossible, just sometimes impractical, and changes later will take a lot of time
  • computational conversation: approach with having thought about the conversation before hand, and try to cover everything

What will a Next-Generation Library System Be?

MJ Suhonos

  • needs to be an integration platform: not just a discovery layer, description layer, indexing layer, etc.
  • have all these systems that don’t talk to each other
  • need to integrate them, but nothing that exists to do it
  • need to make things simpler
    • consolidate metadata silos reduce duplication and legacy systems
    • unify description and discovery eliminate cross-walking, batch-loading, etc.
  • improve choice
  • need to make specialized systems that are good at what they do, but are easy to stitch together
  • vendors have the monolithic system that is a big black box to take care of everything
  • every institution have their own way to describe, which is fine, but need a system that can handle that
  • control over “catalogue enhancements”
  • moving libraries forward
    • allow multiple concurrent standards – might facilitate the transition to RDA without MARC?
    • few tools that span what we do now with linked data
    • be able to share library’s data in a web-friendly way
  • need something that we can play and tweet, that is low risk
  • features: multiple schemas, hierarchy display, everything in real time, responsive interface, facets are dynamic while searching, a little breaky breaky (at the moment)

Passpack and Yubikey

Dale Askey

  • need to be able to share passwords securely because of shared services
  • two factor authentication with Yubikey (physical usb device)
  • can share specific people to specific passwords
  • can set encryption type for each password
  • collaborative password to share outside of the institution as well

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Author Cynthia NgPosted on May 24, 2013October 12, 2024Categories EventsTags code4lib, metadata, security, visualization

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