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Code4Lib 2014 Day 1: Lightning Talks
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
Code4Lib 2014: Day 1 Afternoon
Afternoon of Day 1 of Code4lib 2014.
Code4Lib 2014: Day 1 Morning
Morning talks of Day 1 at Code4lib 2014.
Code4Lib 2014: Opening Keynote
Presented by Sumana Harihareswara
Works for wikimedia. Are moving towards service model vs. speghetti code model. Also run internship and do mentorship. Recently went to learn Decided to stop being a manager and be a coder and technical writer.