Tag: metadata

Mark Matienzo – Wielding the Whip: Affect, Archives, & Ontological Fusion

• need to talk about emotion – a lot of things going on in my life
• inspired by Archives by Emotion
• why do we not acknowledge that archives are based on emotion, stories
• facebook ‘like’ is not an emotion
• losing connections to materials and history when not thinking about the platform and how that effects our stories
• can we write stories about our collections?
• should be using existing linked data to make those narratives
• let’s build this
• Slides
• Full Write-up

Jason Casden and Cory Lown – My #HuntLibrary

• student engagement platform
• how do students use the space?
• what do they choose to document? – using instagram
• student-drive archival selection
• making use, harvesting social media
• Implemention:
• moderated, responsive
• use for public display, can interactive, including larger public display
• inspired by kitten war: built image battle
• calculate popularity score
• also about preservation, collect images
• go.ncsu.edu/MyHunt

Steven Anderson – JavaScript Streaming Clientside Checksumming w/ HTML5 file upload

• basic using JavaScript to view checksum
• and then when files are uploaded
• Demo: hydratest.bpl.org:3000
• On GitHub

Will Hicks – Metadata Entry Beyond Usability

• think back to volunteering to donate blood, etc. what value did it give you?
• ~300 individuals creating metadata
• stats have bumped up with a new interface
• but 10% of the stuff is hidden
• “usable” forms are great, but little “ownership” and lack of domain expertise
• what if we applied the ideas used in social media?
• invite with openID, personalize projects, badges, stats, visualization, etc.

Kelly Lucas – Drupal OPAC Recipe

• the poor man’s Blacklight or Vufind with Solr backend
• process:
  • MARC record dump into Solr using SolrMARC
  • install search API, Search API Solr, Facet API, Sarnia and Views from Drupal.org
  • configure Sarnia + FacetAPI (boosts, enable facets)
  • create a view, add some fields, create an exposed filter (full text search box)
  • slap some facets to the side of the page
• issues: new/updated records requires direct connection to ILS
• Slides

Karen Coyle – Nerd Poetry

• cowboy poetry – told around the camp fire

Mark Redar – Django Dublin Core App

• plugin app
• on Github
• RecordExpress – lightweight, easy to use esp. for those not familiar with XML

James Stuart – Taming Email

•  a really big problem
• part of your job
• here’s how to tame email
• don’t organize: organizing your email is like alphabetizing your recycling
• mailstrom.co
• turn keyboard shortcuts on
• shortcutFoo
• don’t be distracting
• bookmark
• Also take a look at Making Thunderbird More Gmail-y

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