Part 2 of code4libBC unconference of morning lightning talks on day 1.

Open Collections Overview, Paul Joseph, UBC

open collections at UBC library
sits on top of 4 repositories: IR (DSpace), digital images (contentdm), archival material (AtoM), open access data sets (dataverse)
can normalize into a single model using ElasticSearch
browse by collection, featured collections
provide data visualizer map frequency of objects over course of time
user can download metadata and full text
faceted browsing
in context highlighting of query
great way to bring all the digital objects into a single interaction
can stream videos, select quality of images
researchers can register for an API key

Open Collections Architecture, Stefan Khan-Kernahan, UBC

don’t start before you know what users want, how access, how engage, how they go about getting what they want, behaviours users exhibit with other resources that we can take advantage of
core, common information subset for all items
16 core fields, 66 optional fields = metadata manual
ingest process structure technical workflows, transforms source repository data
for ContentDM had to map internal nicks to fields
technical considerations: what to keep on heap vs. on disk; search performance; diacritics; multiple translations
what it took: PHP, Python, JAVA, HTML, JavaScript (Angular, jQuery, D3, Velocity, RequireJS), toolchain (composer, grunt, bower, node, npm), XML, JSON, JSON-LD, RDF, Turtle, N-Triple (outputs, PHP scripting), elasticSearch, Nginx, PostgreSQL, PDFBox, Tika, qpdf, Adobe Media Servr, VIPS

challenge not attracting people, but recruiting content
we’ve been more actively recruiting, which is actually against the nature of the unconference
many expressed that they like having some talks prepared in advance to give other people ideas on what they could talk about
unconference format might be higher risk, but force people to attend in a more collaborative mode
a lot of the time, you end up at pure coding or pure library conferences, so like the mix of code4lib

May do a post on breakout, but otherwise, see you tomorrow!