Library Web Chic

XForms for Metadata creation - Winona Salesky and Michael Park

Winona and Michael each demonstrated the XForms that they have developed. Although they used slightly different methods, Winona’s XForms use a Firefox extension to render properly and Michael’s use Orbeon which is server-side, the goals were similar. I really was impressed with both of these forms and want to get my hands on them. Winona’s code is available as is Michael’s code.

The Wayback Machine - Brad Tofel

Archive-It On Demand Archiving

Open Source Development

• Heritrix
• Hadoop
• NutchWAX
• Nutch
• Wayback

ARC File Format

• URL IP DateSpec MIME Length
• CONTENT
• for 100 MBytes

Next Generation Wayback Machine

• Open Source
• Java
• Modular
  • Query User Interface
    • calendar, search engine, xml
  • Replay User Interface
    • Archival URL, Proxy
  • Resource Index
    • CDX, BDB, Remote, Nutch, Aggregated
  • Resource Store
    • Local ARC, HTTP 1.1 Remote ARC
• Scalable
• Maintainable
• Easily Extended
• Allows novel and experimental features

Code4Lib Future - Ed Corrado

• Not a new issue

Activities

• Mailing list
• Website
• Planet blog aggregator
• Conference
• Journal

Decision Making

• Tribal Elders
• IRC clique
• Last Minute
• Haphazard
• Sometimes after the last minute
• What if someone doesn’t step up?

Issues in the past

• code4lib server outage
• preconferences
• voting
• on presentations
• on locations

To organize or not to organize

Keep things as they are

• It’s not broken, why fix it?
• There are enough fomral organizations, we don’t need yet another
• The way that code4lib runs is what makes it unique and valuable
• code4lib is an experiment and that makes it valuable - Kevin Clarke

Reason to formalize

• Smoothing out the bumpy road
• Responsibility will ensure that things don’t fall through the cracks or are rushed at the last minute
• More formal organization will help
• open up more grant and sponsorship opportunities
• get travel funding
• get recognition form Promotion and Tendure and similar committees
• More formal organization does not necessarily mean a bureaucratic structure

Summary of the issues - By Michael Giarlo

• Formality and committee are loaded with negative connotations of bureaucracy
• general agreement that we wish to have continuity
• participatory spirit of code4lib has been one of its hallmarks and points of attraction
• code4lib is by nature highly decentralized and (to some extent) democratically self-managed
• code4lib is neither top-down or bottom-up It has a bazaar-like infrastructure
  • however it is not flat either
  • appears to be a general agreement abotu wanting to keep code4lib as decentralized as possible/reasonable
• need to encourage individuals to take on leadership positions

If we organize what are we organizing?

• code4lib journal already has a pseudo-formal structure
• code4lib as a conference
• code4lib as an organization

Options for code4lib future

• keep everything the way it is
• join with another organization
  • I doubt that there would be much agreement with this, but it is a possibility
• Formally organize code4lib
  • can be done a number of different ways
  • either legally (tax status etc)
    • tax exempt status
    • legal entity
      • law suits
      • recognition
      • different types
    • Assets - can have them
  • or informally
    • no legal paperwork
    • more flexible - don’t have to play by the rules
    • easier to dissolve

Where do we go from here?

• Task force
• study the options
• write a report
• community to vote to implement or not

Zotero

• Lots of different tools for the humanities
  • JSTOR
  • Wordprocessing
  • EndNote
  • People still use notecards to organize throughts and processes
• Want to bring things together
• Zotero works with lots of different services

Functionality

• Archive web pages
• can tag things
• Build relationships between objects
• Notes
• Attachments
• Trying to move from a client application to build a services around it
• Create Timeline

Get Involved

• Make your tools play nice with Zotero
  • generate COinS
  • Give us something to translate and then we can build a translator
    • MARC or RIS
• Make your campus a Zotero campus
  • Can use our Tutorials and screencasts
• Get your hands dirty and extend Zotero

Future Features

• Syncing plugins and extensions
  • with del.ico.us
• Plugin for Open Office and Microsoft Word
• Exhibit Publishing Framework
  • publish Zotero collections online
• Simile integration
• Zotero Commons - In conjunction with Internet Archive
  • Network repository of stuff
  • Put things up to and pull things down from the Commons

I didn’t take any notes for the Lightning Talks but there will be video of these up later.