According to Jodi’s publications and talks pages she knows math and FRBR, two topics that are beyond me and makes me even more impressed with her than I was before.  And while this alone deserves a post, the real reason I chose Jodi is because she’s the best cheerleader ever.

I first met Jodi at the New England Chapter of Code4Lib meeting held at the Boston Public Library.  I talked about cloud computing and how I hate applications on desktops because they require me to have a specific browser or computer to use.  I was worried I had offended her (she was discussing Zotero), but later she emailed me to ask about the book on cloud computing I was reading.

I then re-met Jodi at the Annual Code4Lib conference.  She was very open and inviting in the IRC chat room, in the real room, and eventually she encouraged me to do my lightning talk.  Jodi made getting involved with an organization that I was timid about getting involved with much easier (note: I was only timid because I’m a girl and girls and IT aren’t known to go together).

Since then Jodi has sent me delicious links, tweets, and anything else on cloud computing that she comes across.  She doesn’t know it but she has pushed me to become more involved in my areas of interest.  I strive to know more and more about cloud computing because she takes an active interest in my area of interest.  I’m attending different cloud computing events because they are good opportunities and I should take advantage of them (where before I might have wasted the opportunity).

So thanks Jodi for being my cheerleader and making me work harder at my job.

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Tim Spalding (Library Thing)

Socail Cataloging…using users to tag books.  Added a section called Common Knowledge.  Essentially things that libraries don’t keep track of or don’t keep track of well.  Not just for books but also for Authors.  This section is a fielded wiki.

Jay “Hussein” Luker (Ex Libris Inc)

URL2Cite http://reallywow.com:5000/slideshow.html

CiteULike.  Bookmark URL and the Plugins scrape metadata from the webpages. Idea is that CiteULike scrapes the metadata and then URL2Cite would take that metadata and put it into a citation format.  Claims that he will blog about it…

Jean Rainwater said that Brown is doing something like this http://freecite.library.brown.edu (they are hoping to get more money from Mellon to expand it)

Also Jay has a cool RDF plugin called tabulator.

WGBH (Courtney Michael, Dov Frede, Chris Beer)

OpenVault — raw interviews, footage, etc from WGBH.  They are trying to tag the information and make it more searchable.  Scholars are concerned about tagging (think librarians and their scholars are the only ones that know anything).  So they allow you to choose LCSH based on the words that you type, however you don’t have to use LCSH.

Jodi Schneider (Amherst College)

Zotero — brief demo of it and how it works.  Zotero is being sued by Thomson http://dltj.org/?s=zotero&searchsubmit=Search

Cassey Bisson (Plymouth State)

Scriblio a way of representing catalogs elsewhere. (works with III without the XML Server!) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scriblio/

He also has instructions for the III importer plugin

The documentation is lagging behind the code, but…

After installing Scriblio activate the Scriblio III Importer plugin. Go to Manage > Import > Scriblio III Importer. And follow the steps as they appear in these screenshots: http://flickr.com/photos/scriblio/sets/72157603031251442/

Additionally there is a public library http://collingswoodlib.org/library/60280/welcome/ that is also a consortium using it.  Hmmmmm….

You can also use it for archives.  Beyond Brown Paper (http://beyondbrownpaper.plymouth.edu) uses flickr for the original cataloging, but Haystack (http://archives.colby-sawyer.edu) is entirely self-contained.  Casey hacked it so that there is a data entry screen for the archives to enter data.  Its an interesting way for archives to display their collections.

Michael Klein (BPL)

Solr and Xforms.  Uses them as a way to populate the BPL’s digital library.  He uses Solr to pull information from LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (a subject heading system).  Pretty cool…he customized so that Solr doesn’t return a simple list but creates a dynamic list (broader, narrower subject terms).

Jay “Hussein” Luker (Ex Libris Inc)

unAPI.org — quick demo of it.  there is a wordpress plugin that essentially lets you pull xml data from your wordpress blog.  might be useful in conjunction with scriblio.

off to the next meeting (darn it!)

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