Code4Lib 2008 Conference
Code4Lib 2008 Conference
February 25 - 28, 2008, Portland, Oregon, USA
The third annual code4lib conference will be held in Portland, Oregon at the Embassy Suites located in downtown Portland. Anyone who is interested in helping plan and organize the conference should join the conference planning discussion list, which can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon.
The registration fee for code4lib 2008 will be $125. On February 4, the fee will increase to $175.00
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Location
The conference will be held at the Embassy Suites Downtown Portland. A single suite is $150 per night, which includes full breakfast and free happy-hour. To make reservations, please call the hotel directly at (503)279-9000 and let the guest representative know that you are with the 2008 Code4Lib Conference.
For cheaper accommodations, some attendees will stay at the HI-Portland Hostel, Northwest, $20-$25 per night (dorms), $40-$75 (private rooms).
Travel Information
Portland International Airport (PDX)
Public Transit from PDX to the conference hotel:
1. Board MAX Red Line to City Center & Beaverton TC
2. Get off at Oak/ SW 1st Ave MAX Station
3. Walk 0.2 mile northwest to Embassy Suites Hotel (319 SW Pine St) -
Travel time: 39 minutes (including 5 minutes walking). At $20, the 7-Day Pass seems like a good deal, as it would cover both the airport-to-hotel and back trips (via MAX Light Rail), and all public transportation (bus/streetcar/light rail) in and around Portland. Visit TriMet for more public transit information.
Seattle: You may also want to look into flights to Seattle and then taking a prop-job down to Portland. Seattle prices were less than half of PDX prices when I (eby) purchased saving even with the prop-job or drive down.
Overview Schedule
Preconferences (free): Monday, February 25, 9 am - 5 pm
* Evergreen
* LibraryFind
* Zotero
Conference: Tuesday, February 26, 8am - Thursday, February 28, Noon
See also the DRAFT Schedule
Local Arrangements
Places to Meet, Eat, and Be Merry
Gender Diversity and Minority Scholarships for Code4lib 2008
Information on applying for the scholarships
Draft Schedule:
Monday, February 25
09:00-17:00 - Pre-Conference Workshop(s)
Tuesday, February 26
08:00-09:00 - Registration / Breakfast
09:00-09:15 - Intros, Housekeeping
09:15-10:00 - Brewster Kahle Keynote
10:00-10:20 - Finding Relationships in Marc Data - Rob Styles
10:20-10:40 - Break
10:40-11:00 - Delivering Library Services in the Web 2.0 environment: OSU Libraries Publishing System for and by Librarians - Kim Griggs, Margaret, Mellinger, and Jane Nichols
11:00-11:20 - The Making of The Code4Lib Journal - Jonathan Brinley
11:20-11:40 - Working with the WorldCat API - David Walker
11:40-12:00 - From Idea to Open Source - Andrew Nagy
12:00-13:00 - Lunch (provided)
13:00-13:20 - XForms for Metadata creation - Winona Salesky and Michael Park
13:20-13:40 - The Wayback Machine - Brad Tofel
13:40-14:00 - The Code4Lib Future - Edward Corrado
14:00-14:20 - Zotero and You, or Bibliography on the Semantic Web - Trevor Owens
14:20-14:40 - Break
14:40-16:00 - Breakout Sessions 1
16:00-17:15 - Lightning Talks 1
17:15-17:40 - DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force API recommendation - Emily Lynema and Terry Reese
18:40-??? - Dinner/Socializing
Wednesday, February 27
08:00-09:00 - Registration / Breakfast
09:00-09:45 - Karen Coyle Keynote
09:45-10:05 - Second Life web interoperability - Moodle and Merlot.org - Jeremy Kemp and Dr. Jonathon Richter
10:05-10:25 - CouchDB is sacrilege… mmm, delicious sacrilege - Dan Scott
10:25-10:40 - Break
10:40-11:00 - A Metadata Registry - Jon Phipps
11:00-11:20 - Building Mountains Out of Molehills - Patrick Kennedy and Ronald Braun
11:20-11:40 - Losing sleep over REST? - Joseph Dalton and Jay Datema
11:40-12:00 - Lightning Talks 2
12:00-13:00 - Lunch (provided)
13:00-13:20 - MARCThing - Casey Durfee
13:20-13:40 - Show Your Stuff, using Omeka - Dave Lester and Jeremy Boggs
13:40-14:00 - Using a CSS Framework - Chris Barr
14:00-14:20 - ÖpënÜRL - Ross Singer and Jonathan Rochkind
14:20-14:40 - Break
14:40-16:00 - Breakout Sessions 2
16:00-17:15 - Lightning Talks 3
17:15-17:30 - Breakout Session Reports 2
18:30-??? - Dinner/Socializing
Thursday, February 28
08:00-09:00 - Breakfast
09:00-09:45 - Jon Udell Keynote
09:45-10:05 - OSS Web-based cataloging tool - Chris Catalfo
10:05-10:20 - Building the Open Library- Aaron Swartz
10:20-10:40 - Break
10:40-11:00 - RDF and RDA: declaring and modeling library metadata - Corey Harper
11:00-11:45 - Lightning Talks 4
11:45-12:00 - Wrap-Up
I heard this conference is very good, but I have never attended it!
For more conference info:
http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/
Posted by Rich
