Hackfest
Cory Doctorow spoke with us about copyright. Holding action is beneficial as the technology gets better. Get your law schools involved in showing cover images and other copyright issues -- a consortium can save over paying Bowker. As an artist, charge for the bits that aren't easily copied: the performance. Ebooks as a privacy risk? Do those companies keep patron reading lists?
Linked data in your OPAC/ILS. Pulling linked data into your system versus exposing your data as linked.
Day 1
Cory Doctorow spoke with us about copyright. Again. Some more depth this time, and better stories. Backchannel discussion led me to this post of his on Mark Twain.
Richard spoke about http://data.vancouver.ca and the need to free our data. How do we connect to superpatrons who might do mashups. Right now there's a lot of value just in releasing your data. APIs versus raw data == control versus unimagined uses.
Dan Chudnov talked about the Library of Congress. His team was the first at the LoC to release software under an opensource license. The vision of incorporating digitally rests on linked data. http://id.loc.gov
Paul Pound talked about Islandora Drupal and Fedora work.
Roy Tennant spoke about OCLC Product Works (http://oclc.org/productworks/). Mike Rylander spoke about open source, cloud computing, and Evergreen as PaaS.
Stevan Harnad spoke from far away about Open Access and the evidence showing the real value of mandates. The mandate should be to deposit all articles in the institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication.
Day 2
Peter Rukavina spoke about digital and real data.
Cary Gordon did a birds-eye of Drupal in libraries.
Good thunder talks. Schools using Drupal. Bess on GIS at UVA. Canadensys and flat plants. Libraryh3lp on Google Android.
Hackfest talks. Human-readable bibliography in Evergreen. Linked data in catalogs.
Dorothea Salo spoke about data and our researchers, and how they dig around
in the sand to build castles of knowledge. We made this mess and we need to
clean it up. These Taylorist processes are not serving us well. IRs present
everything as a PDF paper.
Roy Tennant spoke about the Hathi Trust workflow and outlook. He also
played a video of Roy Tennant coding that featured Stan Rogers's "White
Collar Holler".
Bess Sadler spoke about Blacklight and heterogeneous collections. Librarians write acceptance tests for the search interface.
Andrew Nagy described the progression of computing toward smaller and faster devices.
Day 3
Mark Leggot showed off UPEI's fancy Drupal/Fedora research support project.
Cathy Hartman and Mark Phillips spoke about UNT's Texas History Portal.
Pulling in objects from all over Texas and beyond. Nice ability to view
newspapers. http://beta.texashistory.unt.edu
After the break, Jan Dawson gave a quick tour of roller derby.
Gwendolyn MacNairn spoke about Zotero easing the burden of citations.
William J. Turkel gave a talk titled "> hacking as a way of knowing".
He spoke of the need for a rich backchannel, for casual participation.
He admitted he was preaching to the choir on many points. Imagine a
history spray that produced a cloud of the past that you could feel.
Like aquanet lets you touch the 80s.
Declan Fleming won the laptop and Mark Leggot wrapped it up.