1. Report to the abcd-library working group Bobbi Fox, Annie Cain, Matt Phillips 20 March 2012

2. “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.’“ 20 March 2012 2Report on Code4Lib 2012 Source: http://code4lib.org/about

3.  Started in 2003 with a mailing list (dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/code4lib/)dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/code4lib/  Also has a #code4lib IRC channel on freenode  Manages an edited online Journal (journal.code4lib.org/)journal.code4lib.org/  Has an annual conference  Facilitates local meetings 20 March 2012 Report on Code4Lib 20123

4.  Mostly 1-track sessions: ◦ 2 Keynotes ◦ Most presentations were ~20 minutes ◦ “Lightning talks” (5 minutes each)  Breakout sessions  Socializing opportunities 20 March 2012 Report on Code4Lib 20124

5.  Design  Workflow  Linked Data  Tools 20 March 2012 Report on Code4Lib 20125

6. Main message: Design Counts! ◦ Design for Developers (Slides)Slides ◦ How people search the library from a single search box (Slides)Slides ◦ Your UI can make or break the application (to the user, anyway) (Slides)Slides ◦ Quick and Dirty Clean Usability: Rapid Prototyping with Bootstrap (Slides)Slides ◦ (Lightning talk) Web Usability in terms of words (Slides)Slides 20 March 2012 Report on Code4Lib 20126

7. ◦ 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)Slides ◦ Lies, Damned Lies, and Lines of Code Per Day (Slides)Slides ◦ Practical Agile: What’s working for Stanford (Slides)Slides ◦ Quick and Dirty Clean Usability: Rapid prototyping with Bootstrap (Slides)Slides 20 March 2012 Report on Code4Lib 20127

8. This has been “flavor of the month” for years, but has it finally gained some traction? ◦ "Linked-Data-Ready" Software for Libraries (Slides)Slides ◦ Your Catalog in Linked Data (Supporting docs)Supporting docs ◦ ALL TEH METADATAS! or How we use RDF to keep all of the digital object metadata formats thrown at us. (Slides)Slides 20 March 2012 Report on Code4Lib 20128

9.  Distributed Version Control  Git and Mercurial  Solr  Large scale search HathiTrust  Large scale use at California Digital Library  Relevancy tuning  HTML5  In-browser storage  Microdata  Bootstrap (Twitter) 20 March 2012 Report on Code4Lib 20129

10.  How people search the library from a single search box (Slides)Slides  In-browser data storage and me (Slides)Slides  saveMLAK - Aid activities for the Great East Japan Earthquake through collaboration via Wiki (Slides)Aid activities for the Great East Japan Earthquake through collaboration via WikiSlides  Recovery of Minamisanriku Town Library from Tsunami Disaster (Slides)Slides  Keynote by Bethany Nowviskie: "Lazy Consensus" 20 March 2012 Report on Code4Lib 201210

11.  The presentations schedule The presentations schedule  Listing of Lightning Talks Listing of Lightning Talks  Archive of the live stream Archive of the live stream 20 March 2012 Report on Code4Lib 201211

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