Code4lib 2007, Day 2, Lightning talks 2007 March 1
Karen Combs: CMS on Steroids.
Karen showed her CMS at the University of Houston. It has some wiki-like feature that allow any librarian to edit pages, however they most be approved from the person in that area.
Aaron Krowne: SouthComb: Turning a “Meta-DL” into a sustainable ™ humanities community.: SouthComb is a “capstone” Mellon project that covers the American South.
Winonna Saleskey: XForms
XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms. It splits forms into 3 parts. It is basically the next generation of HTML forms. Xforms have a Model-View-Controller approach. More info can be found on Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XForms. There is also a code4lib wiki page about XForms.
Mark Matienzo (anarchivist): How to Create unmanageable indexing workflow.
Birkin Diana: Simplifying our ILL: Birkin is a programmer at Brown University. They are rolling out a new ILL system at the end of March. He talked about how the functionality worked in this new system.
Gabriel Farrell: Simple Dspace Submission with The Item Importer Gabe talked about how he created an API that used the DSpace item importer to make it as simple as possible for a professor to submit something into DSpace. This project is still in the works.
Kyle ?: Stone age repository : Kyle talked about the lowest tech repository in the world. Apparently they didn’t have much funding, so they had no way to do a lot of development and had to use their existing web server. Also, they didn’t want to change existing workflow. It wasn’t fancy, but seemed to work OK, even though it is rather basic.
Rob Styles (mmmmmRob): The Outlook of the future (abridged): Rob talked about his outlook of the future information services and attitudes. “The content is all mine!” vs. “The content can be shared.”
Jonathan Rochkind: SFX link resolver info in the OPAC: Jonathan talked about the problem of searching in his local catalog and it not including local holdings. He uses the SFX API to load the electronic holdings, however it doesn’t include dates, so he had to write a query to get that info. The hardest part, however, was getting the OPAC to display this information. It didn’t take all that long. Jonathan talked about getting the “Most bang for the buck”
Mark Phillips: Metadata analysis ooh. Mark discussed how he analysis data. They used some fun word clouds and other interesting views.
Stephen Hedges: OPLIN4CAST: Stephen discussed OPLIN4CAST. It uses WordPress and supplies Podcasts. The website has lots of info about how they do this: http://oplin.org.4cast
Mike Beccarin: Facets in Flamenco: Mike found something that is easy to do and filled a need. He used Flamenco (from UC Berkeley). Mike exports stuff from an Access database and wrote a script that places the data in Flamenco format. Once it is in Flamenco, people can browse it using Facets. It works really well for small collections. It can work on many different databases, but he is using it on MySQL.
Tom Wood: Public interface to ERM data: Tom talked about the University of Connecticut s interface to their ERM data.
Alexis Rossi: Internet Archive: Alexis discussed some of the projects at the Internet Archive. They have over 85 billion Web pages in their archive.