Code4lib Day 3, Lightning talks 2007 March 2
Lightning talks:
Andrew Darby: Adopting Orphanware. Andrew talked about how he adopted the pirate source subject guide software that ECU originally released.
Ryan Wick: EAD PDF generator.
Tim Donohue: Format conversion in DSpace using OpenOffice.org. Tim talked about his basic javascript automatic format convertor that uses an OpenOffice.org API to convert documents to PDF.
Ralph LeVan: Worldcat identities. Talked about the OCLC Worldcat Identies project and how it works.
Tito Sierra: Improving search to high demand resources with “Best Bets.” Tito talked about how NCSU looked at web search logs to see what people where looking for and how to provide better results to people based on what are “high demand” resources.
Nicole Engard: Intranet 2.. Nicole showed off her Intranet. It was interesting that she had a message board that failed miserably, but when she implemented a blog that was really a message board, it was successful.
Terry Reese: OSU Metadata translation service. Terry talked about a Web service that accepts metadata streams and urls, and then transforms them to one of nine metadata types.
It’s all in the way you spin it! That’s what Karen was saying in her keynote – and apparently it was true at my library.