Learning (Lib)Tech

ResCarta Foundation

Since last year,
* automatic audio transcription
* but can edit audio afterwards
* internationalization
* facet filtering
* software.rescarta.org

How many times have you been to code4lib?

Michael Giarlo
* many first timers and returnees

SLiMS

• using open source software
• motivated to initiate knowledge sharing
• features integration
• many libraries can’t afford ILS
• spreading, active community across Indonesia
• community of volunteers
• truly free OSS for library automation
• bottom up approach

Harvard Library Lab

Bobbi Fox
* got grant funded
* developed the Harvard Library Lab
* lots of projects that librarians actually want e.g. inscriptio (carrel reservations), class request tool, link-o-matic, course reserves unleashed, PDS mobile web API, do we own this? (check if library have this based on ISBN)

GeoHydra: GIS in the Digital Library

• full service repository for GIS data
• treat as first class objects
• metadata / wrangling -> curation -> delivery -> discovery
• “Wrangle the data until it submits”
• Blacklight Maps where you can plot the data
• have different workflow and deal with different schema
• I’m sorry but I did not understand most of that…

Logs are Your Friend

• logs should be up to date
• should look at log when
• logs logging similar things should be similar
• consider that you might analyze your logs e.g. how big was the file it was doing a checksum on?

Solr Browse & Sort

• faceted heading browser with cross references in Solr
• sort on multi-valued fields
• did some demo/showing

End of the Day

Time to brave the cold again!