Code 4 Lib 2012 Report to the abcdlibrary

Code 4 Lib 2012 Report to the abcd-library working group Bobbi Fox, Annie Cain, Matt Phillips 20 March 2012

Code 4 Lib (ˈkōd-fo r-ˈlib) “A volunteer-driven collective of hackers, designers, architects, curators, catalogers, artists and instigators from around the world, who largely work for and with libraries, archives and museums on technology ‘stuff. ’“ Source: http: //code 4 lib. org/about Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 2

Code 4 Lib � Started in 2003 with a mailing list (dewey. library. nd. edu/mailing-lists/code 4 lib/) � Also has a #code 4 lib IRC channel on freenode � Manages an edited online Journal (journal. code 4 lib. org/) � Has an annual conference � Facilitates local meetings Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 3

Code 4 Lib 2012 Seattle, Washington, February 6 -9 � Mostly 1 -track sessions: ◦ 2 Keynotes ◦ Most presentations were ~20 minutes ◦ “Lightning talks” (5 minutes each) � Breakout sessions � Socializing opportunities Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 4

Emergent Themes � Design � Workflow � Linked Data � Tools Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 5

Design Main message: Design Counts! ◦ Design for Developers (Slides) ◦ How people search the library from a single search box (Slides) ◦ Your UI can make or break the application (to the user, anyway) (Slides) ◦ Quick and <del>Dirty</del> Clean Usability: Rapid Prototyping with Bootstrap (Slides) ◦ (Lightning talk) Web Usability in terms of words (Slides) Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 6

Workflow ◦ Developing in a distributed manner �Beyond code: Versioning data with Git and Mercurial �Git –r done (preconference) ◦ The Golden Road: Building the Grateful Dead Archive (Slides) ◦ Lies, Damned Lies, and Lines of Code Per Day (Slides) ◦ Practical Agile: What’s working for Stanford (Slides) ◦ Quick and Dirty Clean Usability: Rapid prototyping with Bootstrap (Slides) Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 7

Linked Data This has been “flavor of the month” for years, but has it finally gained some traction? ◦ "Linked-Data-Ready" Software for Libraries (Slides) ◦ Your Catalog in Linked Data (Supporting docs) ◦ ALL TEH METADATAS! or How we use RDF to keep all of the digital object metadata formats thrown at us. (Slides) Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 8

Trending Tools � Distributed Version Control �Git and Mercurial � Solr �Large scale search Hathi. Trust �Large scale use at California Digital Library �Relevancy tuning � HTML 5 �In-browser storage � Microdata �Bootstrap (Twitter) Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 9

Presentations That Impressed Us � How people search the library from a single search box (Slides) � In-browser data storage and me (Slides) � save. MLAK - Aid activities for the Great East Japan Earthquake through collaboration via Wiki (Slides) � Recovery of Minamisanriku Town Library from Tsunami Disaster (Slides) � Keynote by Bethany Nowviskie: "Lazy Consensus" Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 10

Some extra links � The presentations schedule � Listing of Lightning Talks � Archive of the live stream Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 11

Questions? Report on Code 4 Lib 2012 20 March 2012 12