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Preconference activities
Schedule 08:00 – 09:00 Registration 09:00 – 09:20 Welcome/Opening Remarks
09:20 – 10:20 · 09:20 – 09:40 Digital Initiatives at Lewis & Clark: cool projects in the liberal arts Mark Dahl & Jeremy McWilliams Lewis & Clark College
· 09:40 – 10:00 Introduction to Android Application Development Keith Folsom Orbis Cascade Alliance
As the number of patrons using smartphones and tablets which depend on mobile specific applications increases, libraries need to be aware of how they can provide services for these platforms. This session provides an introduction for programming on the Android platform using open source tools. · 10:00 – 10:20 Expanding our Mobile Web Environment Evivva Weinraub
Oregon State University
Building on Oregon State University Library's success in mobile web development, In January, we launched Book Genie (http://genie.library.oregonstate.edu), a tool offering patrons a new way to discover recreational reading in an academic environment. The Book Genie is a web site (optimized for use on mobile devices) which gives patrons a chance to randomly select recommendations from the library's collection based on pre-selected subject areas. This session will discuss what tools were used to create this site, the structure of our staffing environment, a demo of the site and a discussion of some of the projects we have in the pipeline. 10:20 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:20 · 10:40 – 11:00 Social widget primer Kyle Banerjee Orbis Cascade Alliance
Social platforms are an effective channel for reaching people with certain needs and providing services. This session provides a gentle introduction to creating widgets with no prerequisite skills beyond those necessary for creating Web pages that create social applications that access information within a social network. Facebook and OpenSocial (which is used by a number of sites including Google, Yahoo, and LinkedIn as well as OCLC's Web Management Services Developer's Platform) will be discussed as well as implications for library services.
· 11:00 – 11:20
Exploring HTML5
Shirley Lincicum Western Oregon University This presentation will provide an introduction to HTML5 and discuss current issues associated with using HTML5 in library systems.
11:30 – 12:00 Lightning Talks #1 12:00 – 01:15 Lunch
01:20 – 02:00 · 01:20 – 01:40 Blending open source and the cloud to build a discipline-specific repository Al Cornish Washington State University
This presentation describes the blend of two tools – an open source digital content platform and low-cost, cloud-based infrastructure services – that are used to create an online, discipline-specific repository, the Naval Reactors History Database (http://navalreactorshistorydb.info/).
The key software tool used to support this online database is the California Digital Library’s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) open source platform. XTF supports enhanced search features like faceted browsing, spelling correction, similar items searching, and the output of search results to RSS. It has a Java-based framework, but significant customizations to XTF’s search and display are possible through XSLT programming.
The hardware infrastructure for the Naval Reactors History Database is based on Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The costs of hosting this online database will be described and analyzed in-depth – one goal of this effort is to build and deploy a robust, online discipline-specific database at the lowest possible cost.
· 01:40 – 02:00 Making MS Windows Work for You! Ken Guidry Eastern Washington University
· 02:00 – 02:20 Talking to Evergreen David Drexler Eastern Oregon University
02:20 – 02:40 – Break
02:40 – 03:20 · 02:40 – 03:00 Ezproxy Login Tricks Doug Eriksen Seattle University You use Ezproxy to get users into IP address restricted databases, maybe you authenticate against III, or against LDAP, I'll show you a few additional tricks EZproxy can do. Automated form completion, UserObjects for non-LDAP users, maybe (if I've got it working) ezproxy login as gatewy to ILLiad. Introduction to OAuth Terry Reese Oregon State University OAuth is an open standard for authorization. If you develop applications or services that need to store protected data for your users, this session will show you a simpler and more secure way to do this. 03:30 – 04:00 Lightning Talks #2
4:00 – 4:20 Raffle and Closing
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