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.
Stories from my Life as a Technologist
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.
Presneted by Ben Durrant
So this time I did a proper card sort, because the services section is a lot bigger than the others. How to group services and the pages therein is also a lot less clear cut. Continue reading “Services Card Sort & Revised IA”
Continues the story from last year.
Sorry, I had to take a brain break and got a little lost. I’m also going to blame twitter and IRC for distracting me. Take a look at the slides:
How to shut up about linked data and actually build something.
Sorry, but we don’t use Solr, and anyone really interested I think can look up information the update. e.g. Apache Solr Release Notes
Check out the slides:
Who’s faculty? Half Faculty – small handful who care about being faculty
Planing and pilot phase of bringing together all resources of types. How to decide what to use and where to start?
Normalizing records from MARC to Solr. Want help with format.
How many have library degrees? 2/3 do, 1/3 don’t
Code4Lib – archiving our stuff? Talk to Mark/anarchivist. Mailing list is archived on the university server. Mirrored on post. Regular basis, dumped to media forward.
Goals of BIBFRAME? Replacing/superseding MARC.
First-timers to c4lcon? majority of room. All? < 20
Anyone collecting social media on behalf of user community or collection building purposes? Going to be a lightning talk tomorrow.
Anyone from a theology library? ~5 ppl
Want to know successful examples of gamification to support information literacy by @maccabeelevine e.g. Lemontree
Glossary of technology and stacks. On code4lib wiki? A guide for the perplexed. We can work on it.
Who is using graph databases? 2-3 ppl
Using DSpace? 25-30 FedoraCommons? 25-30 Hydra? 10-15
This conference working for you? Almost everyone.
What do people think of the wiki? One idea is to move it over to github code4lib account.
From the federal government? 3
Anyone interested in integrated TSM into Solr? anarchivist says he knows people
How many non-library degree people considering getting one? 2
How many have project managers as their title? ~12 Public? 5 Academic? rest
CodeRead – looking at PyMARC (sp?). Anyone else looking into this?
Didn’t get all the questions, but that’s most of them.
The University of Toronto iSchool was lucky enough to get Steve Krug of Don’t Make Me Think fame. If you haven’t read it and you’re at all interested in usability, I would definitely recommend it. Anyway, here are my notes from today’s talk.
Convince you that usability testing is the most valuable thing you can do to ensure that what you’re building works.
Realized seeing the same story over and over again. He first started by turning it into a comic. Basically the same debates happened over and over, frequently without decisions being made. It’s difficult to find a middle ground, because each person comes with their own perspective. Partly, there’s no hard and fast answer, because it depends on the context.
Usability testing eliminated most debates. Seeing users use what they designed changed their perspective and start talking from the user perspective rather than personal biases.
Traditionally, usability is done in a lab with the minimum 8 users in a day by an outsider, ending in an expensive report which may not be convincing to the team.
Rocket Surgery Made Easy written more for people intending to actually do usability testing.
Just do it with:
Use script, which can be downloaded from Krug’s website. Instead of a website, he did a live demo on the Clear mobile app. Interestingly, the participant could not complete the task, which was interesting since the app is highly praised.
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