Cynthia Ng – RULA Bookfinder
- Link to the full write-up
Julien Gibert – Turning a Solr Response into a RDF file
- Theses.fr
- Sorry, this went by me, plus I was busy running back to my seat
Bill Dueber – Datamart Report Generator at UMich
- actually talking about spreadsheets
- want to support data-drive decision making, but it’s boring, and canned reports tend not to do it
- can end up in substring hell
- solution: build data warehouse
- took Aleph oracle COBOL store, removed insanity and put it in another oracle database
- funds and inventory reports now possible
- running 20-25 reports a week
- more than when we ran it by hand, and saves lots of time
Jonathan Rochkind – bento_search
- RubyRails gem
- external search services e.g. Google books
- federated e.g. primo, eds, ebscohost, scopus, worldcat, google books
- can use whatever you want, just need to add it
- can customize to have link resolver
- github.com/jrochkind/sample_megasearch/
- much more functionality
Masao Takaku – saveMLAK project for two years
- came out of the effort to save museum, library, archive, kominkan (community centre) after the big earthquake
- gather information of facilities in damaged area using a wiki
- coordinate activities to rebuild
- efforts are still continuing
Jon Stroop – Loris Image Server
- define syntax for image access
- can specify width/height, part of image, quality
- Talk link
Ross Singer – How are you managing copyright?
- lazy attempt at crowd-sourced business development
- copyright is complicated
- there are standard licenses, but then there are a lot of exclusions and exceptions
- still, roughly the same model
- management already being done in some capacity by the universities
- but in US/Canada there is fair dealing and fair use
- Slides
Eric Nord – Candybars for Bugs
- Harold B. Lee Library
- worked on maps in library
- pop up map
- will give candy bar if found error
- only had to give away 18
- have a ‘report a problem’ with this item
- builds the idea to power the patron
Megan O’Neill Kudzia – Games for Pedagogy in the Library
- working with faculty
- a lot of interest, but no opportunity to talk about it
- purchasing games on an ask basis
- working out how to make accessible, in catalogue
- licensing issues for PC/console games
Geoffrey Boushey – GEDI Reference App for InterLibrary Loan
- General Electronic Document Interchange (ISO Standard)
- used by Ariel
- headers added to a file when sent from one institution to another
- basis for making an easy to use tool so different ILL systems can communicate with each other
- on Github
George Campbell – three.js: 3D Objects in the browser
- used to have to use flash or flip through images
- can now use interactive 3D graphics
- can scale, add text/images, move
John Sarnowski – Audio Archiving with Full Text Search
- ResCarta Toolkit
- display and play audio
- add metadata
- use conversion tool
- embeds into XML portion
- final file can then be searched
- words can be highlighted just like a text file
That’s the end of Day 1! Join us tomorrow. Time for a nap.
