Presentations and documents tagged “code4lib”
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djatoka for djummies
from eby, posted 4 months ago in Technology. 370 views
What kind of dummy would volunteer to do a presentation on a product he hasn't even tried before? Perhaps the kind that has three weeks off from work in Dec./Jan. Or, perhaps the kind that hopes others will join him in this radical experime...
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LibX 2.0
from eby, posted 4 months ago in Technology. 300 views
Since its inception, the LibX browser plugin has been adopted by over 500 libraries to provide access to their services at the user's point of need. We are now developing LibX 2.0, a community platform that allows anybody to create, share, ...
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Like a can opener for your data silo: simple ac...
from eby, posted 4 months ago in Technology, Education. 480 views
Jangle is an open specification to apply the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) to library systems and data. It provides a simple RESTful interface that can be accessed with common Atom Syndication and AtomPub clients making it easier to in...
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RESTafarian-ism at the NLA
from eby, posted 4 months ago in Technology. 410 views
Two years ago the National Library of Australia decided to go the route of SOA, particularly REST web services. Since then we have developed a stack of them for varying projects. This talk will expose a few of those services (that provide M...
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Why libraries should embrace Linked Data
from eby, posted 4 months ago in Technology, Books. 516 views
The promise of Linked Data is not that it is another way of aggregating data. For too long have library data been trapped within data-silos only accessible through obscure protocols. Why is access to library data still an issue? Letting eve...
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LuSql: (Quickly and easily) Getting your data f...
from eby, posted 4 months ago in Technology. 623 views
Need to move your data from your DBMS to Lucene? The recently released LuSql allows you to do this in a single line. LuSql is a high performance, low use barrier application for getting DBMS data into Lucene. This presentation will introduc...
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Howto Meet People and Have Fun At Code4lib2009
from anarchivist, posted 4 months ago in How-to & DIY, Technology. 212 views
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If you love something... set it free
from iandavis, posted 4 months ago in Technology, Sports. 8627 views
My keynote presentation at code4lib 2009 in Providence, RI
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Freebasing for Fun and Enhancement
from MrDys, posted 4 months ago in How-to & DIY, Entertainment. 248 views
A quickie intro to MQL and Freebase APIs presented at Code4Lib2009.
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Squeezing more from the OPAC
from rjw, posted 4 months ago in Technology. 801 views
Presentationfrom Code4lib2009 launching Juice - JavaScript User Interface Conponentised Extensions
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30 Minute Guide to RDF and Linked Data
from iandavis, posted 4 months ago in Technology. 2915 views
I gave this presentation at the code4lib 2009 linked data preconference (see http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/LinkedData)
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CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 878 views
CouchDB has gained buzz in the last year as an ad-hoc, schema-free, web-friendly data store. Slapstick hilarity results when a self- confessed relational database bigot experiments with CouchDB and reports on the good, the bad, and the meh....
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Using a CSS Framework
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Business & Mgmt. 973 views
Using a CSS framework can allow you to speed up your development time, normalize your code base, and avoid some common browser bugs. In this talk I will discuss when it is appropriate to use a framework, potential pitfalls of common framewo...
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XForms for Metadata creation
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 615 views
As distributing metadata creation to authors, catalogers and other system users who may or may not have an understanding of XML becomes more and more important it has become imperative to develop reliable methods for creating and editing XM...
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Working with the WorldCat API
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 761 views
David Walker, from California State University, will show a prototype that uses the new OCLC Grid Services WorldCat API. The presentation will detail the newly released WorldCat API, examining its strengths and weaknesses. The prototype wil...
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Karen Coyle Keynote - R&D: Can Resource Descrip...
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 906 views
Work is beginning to transform the eloquent yet arcane texts called "library cataloging records" into data elements that will play well in the Web. Beginning with the upcoming revised cataloging rules, called
Resource Description and Access...
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ÖpënÜRL
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Education. 543 views
The Ümlaut is an open source OpenURL middleware layer intended to improve the link resolving chain by analyzing incoming citations and intelligently querying resources to better enable access to them. The Ümlaut takes multiple approaches fo...
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DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force API reco...
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 725 views
The DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force was charged with creating a technical proposal that would provide standardized integration between integrated library systems and external applications, better enabling libraries to replace their O...
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Building Mountains Out of Molehills
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Spiritual. 514 views
Faceted navigation, which is an increasingly common feature of library OPACS, was initially developed to browse hierarchical data. MARC data however, has relatively little hierarchy, and user-generated tags have even less. The flatness of t...
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Zotero and You, or Bibliography on the Semantic...
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Business & Mgmt. 849 views
Representatives from the Center for History and New Media will introduce Zotero, a free and open source extension for Firefox that allows you to collect, organize and archive your research materials. After a brief demo and explanation, we w...
