Code4LibBC Day 2 starting with more lightning talks.
The LITA Forum & library data in Python
Trevor Smith
- IT section of ALA
- pre-conf on learning Python by playing with library data
- PyMARC scripts
- Beautiful Soup (also good for screen scraping)
- Tip: Don’t use Python 3
Using MapBox and geoJSON to showcase historical slides and audio recording
Dan Sifton
- Slides PDF
- example: Nanaimo Slide Collection
- converted data and files to use MapBox to create a heat map
- but needed to find out where pictures were taken
- asked colleague to find it, but then found KML file with Nanaimo landmarks
- wanted to do something open, learn something, and have more control
- used Mapbox.js with OpenStreetMap, and includes Leaflet
- responsive, and done prototype
How your library can REALLY protect free speech and anonymity: Expanding anonymous, uncensored internet access for library patrons
Scott Leslie
- Slides
- big news item had no response from a national library
- the different libraries make in surveillance is fairly small
- there are problems with open wifi, but by making people log in, it’s no longer anonymous
- we don’t check identity before patrons walk into the library, why do it for internet access? libraries should offer both open and secure access
- can use TOR, not foolproof, but still goes a long way in obscuring traffic
- TOR on Campus, take the challenge
- not without precedence
- alternative, run an anonymous proxy server for your patrons
- libraries do great efforts on challenging book bans, but what about internet resource? these are ways to help others access any sites
- consider alternatives to Google, such as DuckDuckGo, OpenStreetMap
When campus IT comes knocking
Paul Joseph
- context: CIO wanted to streamline, do shared IT services. mass attritions without replacements. weren’t budgeting, enterprise architecture framework
- IT Assessment: business analysis, applications inventory, infrastructure review
- capability map: describes potential, functional abilities, framework to align strategies
- words to speak about our work: collections, engagement, management
- develop, provide access, assess and maintain collections
- develop: select, obtain, receive, process, describe, digitize
- gives high level overview
* applications inventory: inventory, process map, analysis, ~70 metrics - findings: 65% require multiple services or integration with other tools
- end-user scope: 53% accessible to the world
- eResources Ecosystem and Workflows is… crazy; Course Reserves is similar
- also have notes from the longer Access 2014 version
Break Time
