First, Jay Luker talked about CiteULike and the Pylons stuff he's written to access their API.
People from WGBH talked about media metadata and using the LCSH dump from LCSH.info. They have a typeahead prompt for users to add subjects that encourages the use of LCSH, but doesn't limit to it.
Jodi Schneider talked about Zotero and the possibilities of the semantic
web. Discussion landed on the positives and negatives of an in-browser
tool. Casey Bisson made the point that it lives in the browser because our
resources are inaccessible from the web at large. Michael Klein said
the ideal would be an in-browser tool with shared data storage, which is
what Zotero Commons will be. Update 2008-12-10
from Michael Klein: "Correction: What I want is a browser tool for
scraping/harvesting (like we have now), but a cloud-based browser interface
to read, manage, format, and export records. So you need the plugin to
create your research pile, but you can do your research, cite your
references, and create your bibliography from any browser, with or without
the plugin."
Casey Bisson and Kelly talked about Scriblio and http://archives.colby-sawyer.edu. Scriblio will merge records as they're loaded in. Also looked at http://beyondbrownpaper.plymouth.edu and http://collingswoodlib.org/.
Michael Klein talked about BPL Digital Initiatives, including XForms and MODS. Includes a browsable thesaurus resting on Solr. Also includes 1300 lines of XML pain.
Just before lunch, Jay Luker did a quick overview of unAPI. Casey brought up the point that unAPI creates a separate URL for a resource, against the objectives of the microformat people.
After lunch, Sands Fish spoke about Simile, RDF, and ontologies. Now looking at author citation metadata for Longwell. Facade is Future-proofing Architectural Computer-Aided DEsign. Timeline is the more popular one (sometimes called Simile, but that's the name of the whole project). Exhibit is another one, written entirely in JavaScript, using the in-browser database and JSON (or a close relation to JSON). The Simile funding has ended, but the project code lives on at http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/.
I tried to help Jay install FBO, which led to a quick temporary fix for loading MARCXML data and a couple of other changes, but he had some Solr issues that got in the way of things. Afterward, we went to Bukowski's.
Update 2008-12-11: New England Code4Lib can be found at http://ne.code4lib.org.