2006-08-24T12:30:00Z Code4Lib http://code4lib.org/ Audio from the 2006 Code4Lib Conference held in Corvallis, Oregon. http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/handle/1957/2933 http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2934 2006-08-21T17:20:01Z 2006-02-15T12:00:00Z A virtual keynote with the Evergreen development team of the PINES consortium in Georgia that was presented at the 2006 Code4Lib Conference on Feb. 15 2006. Evergreen Development Team http://open-ils.org/ http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2935 2006-08-21T19:21:39Z 2006-02-15T12:00:00Z ERP options in an OSS World : Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications are considered some of the largest and most complex systems ever written, and support many of the functions that libraries associate with the acquisitions and processing side of their operations. The information retrieval layers of library systems receive a lot of attention with good reason, but there's also a body of standards and best practices for back office systems which libraries could benefit from as well. Open Source ERP systems offer options for libraries to take advantage of OMG standards and workflow engines, and this session will give an overview of some currently available ERP options. -- Connecting everything with and unAPI and OPA : unAPI is a simple-to-use, simple-to-implement API for web sites that allows rich object access and can be easily layered over existing services like Atom, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, or SRU. OPA is a general-purpose identifier resolver that wraps API calls to heavily-used but incompatible web services like those from Amazon, Flickr, and Pubmed. -- WikiD : Ward Cunningham describes a wiki as the simplest online database that could possibly work. The cost of this simplicity is that wikis are generally limited to a single collection containing a single kind of record (viz. WikiMarkupLanguage records). WikiD extends the Wiki model to support multiple WikiCollections containing arbitrary schemas of XML records with minimal additional complexity. Furthermore, displays and services can be customized on a per-collection basis.

Three 20 minute presentations given on the morning of Feb. 15, 2006 at the code4lib Conference at Oregon State University in the LaSells Stewart Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Art Rhyno Dan Chudnov Jeffrey A Young http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2936 2006-08-21T19:56:18Z 2006-02-15T12:00:00Z Lipstick on a Pig : 7 ways to improve the sex life of your OPAC : NJIT has used a variety of tools (but largely ColdFusion) to extend their library's OPAC to engage today's Millennial (raised in the Goozlezon†Web 2.0 environment) students: (1) book covers; (2) book reviews, (3) live circulation usage history, (4) recommendation engine, (5) RSS of journals tables of contents, (6) live librarian support, (7) shortcut, durable links (PURL's) to specific items. -- AHAH : When good is better than best : It can be difficult to enhance, fix or extend legacy/closed-source web applications such as online catalogs without being able to alter the web application directly. Durfee discusses using AHAH (Asynchronous HTTPRequest and HTML) as a technique for doing so and compares it to AJAX, proxying and SSI. Examples from the Seattle Public Library's next generation online catalog will be presented. Performance and scalability concerns are also presented. -- Digital libraries are supposed to foster reuse of digital content but it is hard to combine content from different sources. We are building prototype software that (1) converts different types of courseware to an XML interchange format based on OpenDocument and other specs/standards (2) enables the content to be disaggregated, recombined, re-styled and endowed with SCORM reporting behaviors and (3) realizes instructional design through the use of the SCORM (or IMS) Simple Sequencing. Will demo, discuss and am happy to talk about the bigger picture of reusability in educational digital libraries and standards if given a longer slot.

Three 20 minute presentations given on the afternoon of Feb. 15, 2006 at the code4lib Conference at Oregon State University in the LaSells Stewart Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Jim Robertson Casey Durfee Robby Robson http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2939 2006-08-21T20:57:01Z 2006-02-15T12:00:00Z Titles of the 5 minute talks: 1. Total Eclipse Of My Brain (Ed Summers) 2. [Link PURLs|http://purl.org/net/linkpurl] and Firefox (Devon Smith) 3. Call to Action: Deprecate OAI Sets! (Rob Sanderson) 4. Cross-Site Scripting Attacks (Eric Hellman) 5. Object Relational Mapping in 21 days^W^W 5 minutes (Ed Summers) 6. The Amazing Linkr8r 3 min (Charles Lockwood) 7. Making the case for Link Resolver Routers (Ross Singer) 8. Down and Dirty Metadata Analysis (Roy Tennant) Review of Breakout session reports. code4lib Conference was held Feb. 15-17, 2006 at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

The lightening talks were fast paced 5 minute talks on topics of the speaker's choosing.

Ed Summers Devon Smith Rob Sanderson Eric Hellman Charles Lockwood Ross Singer Roy Tennant http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2940 2006-08-21T21:15:49Z 2006-02-16T12:00:00Z A lot can be done in 1,000 lines of code. A retrieval system blending a Dewey browser and an interactive ˜live™ search is presented which is currently implemented in about 1,000 lines. As the user types, the system searches for records, classifies those records into DDC categories, and displays them using standard protocols. The data structures needed to support this are computed in parallel using a Python implementation of map-reduce. Other topics include discussing the reasoning behind OCLC's recent shift to using version 2.0 of the Apache License to release their open source software.

Keynote presentation given during the second day of the code4lib Conference held Feb. 15-17, 2006 at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Thom Hickey http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2946 2006-08-23T16:23:20Z 2006-02-16T12:00:00Z Generating recommendations in OPACS: initial results and open areas for exploration : In the context of a research and prototyping project, the California Digital Library is using catalog content indexed in XTF, along with over 9 million historical circulation transaction records and other external data, to generate recommendations for an academic audience. Early results are promising. This talk will focus on methods, challenges, and plans for further development. -- Library Text Mining : Using the TeraGrid1 and the SRB DataGrid2, we have sufficient computational and storage facilities to run normally prohibitively expensive processing tasks. By integrating text and data mining tools3[4] within the Cheshire35 information architecture, we can parse the natural language present in 20 million MARC records (the University of California's MELVYL collection) and extract information to provide to search/retrieve applications. In this talk, we'll discuss the results of applying new techniques to "old" data. -- Anatomy of aDORe : The aDORe Archive is a write-once/read-many storage approach for Digital Objects and their constituent datastreams. First, XML-based representations of multiple Digital Objects are concatenated into a single, valid XML file named an XMLtape. Second, ARC files, as introduced by the Internet Archive, are used to contain the constituent datastreams of the Digital Objects. The software was developed by the LANL Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team and is available under GNU LGPL license.

Presentation given on the second day of the code4lib Conference held Feb. 15-17, 2006, at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Colleen Whitney Rob Sanderson Robert Chute http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2947 2006-08-23T16:31:56Z 2006-02-16T12:00:00Z Teaching the library and information community how to remix information : Yee articulates a framework that he is using to teach LIS students how to remix information with XML and web services. Because information remix comes across as a grab bag of techniques, students need a framework for learning a particular example of remix in depth so they can understand remixing in a broader context. In his talk, he reflects on using Flickr as a paradigmatic example in elucidating remix to LIS students. -- Chasing Babel : "Two Paths to Interoperable Metadata [1] proposed a model for metadata translation that offers substantial gains over models based on the current community standard, which usually involves an XSLT implementation. In this presentation, Smith discusses implementation issues with the Semantic Equivalence Expression Language (Seel), their alternative to XSLT [2]. He shows how Seel eases the complex task of change management because it represents a more faithful computational model of the metadata translation problem. --The Case for Code4Lib 501c(3) : Libraries face tremendous challenges to create effective and responsive institutions in a Googlezon world. But the type of leadership that is needed so far hasn't materialized. If it isn't going to come from the administrators, let it come from the coders. In this talk Tennant will build a case for establishing Code4Lib as a nonprofit library software cooperative. A financial structure would allow code4lib to put real resource's both financial and human into bringing libraries into the 21st century.

These 20 minute presentations were given during the second day of the code4lib Conference held Feb. 15-17, 2006 at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Raymond Yee Devon Smith Roy Tennant http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2948 2006-08-23T16:43:09Z 2006-02-16T12:00:00Z Titles of the 5 minute talks: 1. LinkPURLs and Firefox (Devon Smith) 2. xISBN and Bookmarklets (Jeff Young) 3. Vendors - Give us Our Data! (Aaron Krowne) 4. How to Share User Data without getting 5. Subpoenaed (Casey Durfee) 5. Repurpose/Syndication of Scopus DB Results on Library Webpages (Jim Robertson) 6. Perl Script for Interpreting LC Call Numbers (Jeff Davis) 7. OCLC License (Thom Hickey) 8. Google Maps and SVG (Art Rhyno) 9. Extending and Customizing Moveable Type for Library Weblogs (Karen Coombs) 10. The COINs Generator (Eric Hellman) 11. Standardized Image Production and Metadata Storage for Libraries and Archives (John Sarnowski)

The lightning talks were fast paced 5 minute talks on topics of the speaker's choosing. code4lib Conference was held Feb. 15-17, 2006, at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Jeffrey A Young Devon Smith Aaron Krowne Casey Durfee Jim Robertson Jeff Davis Thom Hickey Art Rhyno Karen Coombs Eric Hellman John Sarnowski http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2951 2006-08-23T18:45:16Z 2006-02-17T12:00:00Z Quality metrics : This talk discusses the core development activities of the Quality Metrics project at Emory's Woodruff Library. This project is being conducted under an IMLS grant to research requirements for and build a working prototype digital library search system. What this project is doing that is new is truly generalizing and integrating explicit and latent quality indicators which allow users to ascertain the fitness of digital library resources. Most search engine components have only one indicator: content-query similarity (relevance). Google only has two, adding PageRank to the latter. Our system, QM-search, will have an unlimited number of these, which will be customizable by the digital librarian for the target community and collections, and even customizeable from user to user or search to search. Some basic examples of quality indicators that digital libraries might be able to exploit would be activations (views online or check-outs in circulation), selection (compilation in bookmark lists online or additions to course reserves lists), extent of review (from a peer-reviewed journal, conference, or not?), or citation-based metrics. The ouput of QM-search will be in a completely generalized XML format, with the search results represented as a structure based on the structure specified in the input organization spec. This XML output can be transformed into presentation HTML resembling anything from a linear Google-like search results list to an A9-like column display to more exotic groupings and breakdowns. Requirements for QM-search are being gleaned from focus groups being conducted at Emory (preliminary results will be shared), and development is being conducted as a high-level layer atop the excellent Lucene open source search engine project. -- Practical aspects of implementing Open Source in Armenia : A look at Open Source from outside of North America. What is the situation on Open Source in Armenia? What actions will be implemented at Yerevan State University library concerning Open Source? What are problems facing Armenian libraries, as well as those in Georgia and Azerbaijan, in creating digital repositories?

These presentations were given on the third day of the code4lib Conference held Feb. 15-17, 2006, at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Aaron Krowne Tigran Zargaryan http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2952 2006-08-23T18:52:06Z 2006-02-17T12:00:00Z What Blog Applications Can Teach Us About Library Software Architecture : The number of programmers in the library world is growing and our individual efforts have shown great promise, but they exist largely as a spectacle that few libraries can enjoy. We need better means to aggregate our efforts and share solutions that can be employed by libraries without programming staff. Looking outside libraries, we see some interesting examples in the blog world. The blog world is growing with new bloggers every day, but the most interesting aspect is how many people with limited technical skills are using (maintaining and configuring) blog applications like WordPress or Moveable Type, and how quickly the contributions of the many plugin and theme developers are implemented on those blogs. What lessons can we learn from this and how might a library application built from those lessons work? Are some software architectures better at leveraging the network effects of the growing number of developers in our community than others? Bisson is working on a project that attempts to answer those questions and he hopes to release a public beta shortly (update: it's WPopac, online now). -- Lightning talks: 1. Choose Your Own Adventure Conference (Devon Smith) 2. Native XML Database Demo (Al Cornish) 3. OCLC Software Contest (Thom Hickey) 4. Panizzi!! (Walter Lewis, with Peter Binkley virtually)

These presentations, lightning talks and breakout reviews were given on the third day of the code4lib Conference held Feb. 15-17, 2006, at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Casey Bisson Devon Smith Thom Hickey Walter Lewis Peter Binkley Alan Cornish