[CODE4LIB] FW: 2010 Fall Forum Call For Proposals
Hadn't seen this show up here yet. Please note the variation on a hackfest idea called working sessions which could bring together developers, metadata people, content specialists, project managers, etc., to work on a specific problem using the hackfest style as an inspiration. Might be of interest to folks in this community! Jenn -Original Message- From: Kathlin Smith [mailto:ksm...@clir.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:51 AM To: dlf-annou...@lists.clir.org Subject: 2010 Fall Forum Call For Proposals The 2010 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Fall Forum is seeking ideas and proposals for presentations, panel sessions, workshops, reading discussions, and hands-on problem solving. The Forums have traditionally been working meetings where DLF members come together to share, strategically plan, and commit to future activities. Although the focus remains the same, starting with the 2010 Fall Forum, participation is open beyond the Federation to all those interested in contributing to and playing an active part in the successful future of digital libraries, museums and archives services, and collections. For the 2010 Fall Forum, the Program Planning Committee is requesting ideas and proposals focused within the broad framework of digital collections and their effect on libraries, museums and archives services, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities. We welcome proposals from both current community members and non- members who are interested in joining the DLF. Managing digital content from cradle to grave is a complex challenge for library, museum, and archives operations. It requires creative and collaborative approaches. In that spirit, and to maximize the Forum’s benefit and better facilitate the community’s work, the Forum’s schedule will provide many opportunities to actively engage and network. The 2010 Fall Forum will have a strong participatory feel, with opportunities for community discussions, creative problem solving, and hands-on workshops. Ideas and activities generated at the Fall Forum will inform future DLF work and shape the program for the future DLF Community Forums. Session genres include: Presentations and Panels: Traditional lecture format with question-and- answer sessions. Workshops: In-depth, hands-on training about a tool, technique, workflow, etc. You can recommend a topic or trainer, or you can volunteer to share your own expertise. Reading Discussions: Group discussion of a particular blog post, article, video, report, or book. Suggest a reading and a discussion facilitator, or volunteer to facilitate the discussion of a particular reading yourself. Working Sessions: Creative problem solvers, including project managers, developers, and/or administrators, gather to address a specific problem. This does not have to be a computational problem. The approach can be applied to workflow issues, metadata transformations, or other complex problems that would benefit from a collective, dynamic solution approach. Tools Showcase: Variation on a poster session or lightning talks. Presenters will demonstrate tools they have developed or are using in their digital library environment. Proposal Submission Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures Ideas or complete proposals should be submitted as an attached document to d...@clir.org. Proposals must include a title, session leader, session genre, and a proposal description (maximum 500 words). If you are submitting an idea and not a full-fledged proposal, please suggest someone to lead the session, and indicate whether or not you have contacted this individual regarding this possibility. Proposals must be submitted by August 23, 2010. Those submitting complete proposals will be notified of their status by September 10, 2010. Ideas for sessions and workshops will be posted on a DLF Community Discussion Forum for feedback by September 10, 2010 (this forum is not yet active). If you would like to be invited to participate in the discussion forum, please send your name and email address to d...@clir.org with a comment that you want to be included. Presenters will be guaranteed a registration place. The 2010 Fall Forum will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto November 1-3, 2010. More information about the 2010 Fall Forum can be found at http://www.clir.org/dlf/dlfforum.html
[CODE4LIB] Safari extensions
Has anyone played with the new Safari extensions capability? I'm looking at you, Godmar. Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA e...@hellman.net http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ @gluejar
Re: [CODE4LIB] Safari extensions
No, nothing beyond a quick read-through. The architecture is similar to Google Chrome's - which is perhaps not surprising given that both Safari and Chrome are based on WebKit - which for us at LibX means we should be able to leverage the redesign we did for LibX 2.0. A notable characteristic of this architecture is that content scripts that interact with a page are in a separate OS process from the main extensions' code, thus they have to communicate with the main extension via message passing rather than by exploiting direct method calls as in Firefox. - Godmar On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net wrote: Has anyone played with the new Safari extensions capability? I'm looking at you, Godmar. Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA e...@hellman.net http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ @gluejar
Re: [CODE4LIB] Safari extensions
Has anyone given thought to how hard it would be to port Firefox extensions such as LibX and Zotero to Chrome or Safari? (Am I the only one finding Firefox to be very slow compared to Chrome?) -Raymond On 8/5/10 1:10 PM, Godmar Back wrote: No, nothing beyond a quick read-through. The architecture is similar to Google Chrome's - which is perhaps not surprising given that both Safari and Chrome are based on WebKit - which for us at LibX means we should be able to leverage the redesign we did for LibX 2.0. A notable characteristic of this architecture is that content scripts that interact with a page are in a separate OS process from the main extensions' code, thus they have to communicate with the main extension via message passing rather than by exploiting direct method calls as in Firefox. - Godmar On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Eric Hellmane...@hellman.net wrote: Has anyone played with the new Safari extensions capability? I'm looking at you, Godmar. Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA e...@hellman.net http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ @gluejar
Re: [CODE4LIB] Safari extensions
If I remember correctly, the latest versions of Firefox had problems, but I don't know if it's related to performance necessarily. More like bloat. http://bit.ly/c1c3m1 Either way, I definitely find Firefox too slow to use after the switch to Chrome, which took all of 5 minutes to completely convert me. If Chrome were a drug, I'd be strung out and living on the streets. But what's to say it won't head the same way as Firefox in the future (bloat-wise.) It's also a memory hog, especially when you load up Firebug. Chrome's debugging tools are like a dream come true. That said, I'm not that kind of developer, so I won't be able to help port any extensions to Chrome or Safari. Testing, yes, porting, no. :) --Joel Joel Richard IT Specialist, Web Services Division Smithsonian Institution Libraries | http://www.sil.si.edu/ (202) 633-1706 | (202) 786-2861 (f) | richar...@si.edu From: Raymond Yee y...@berkeley.edu Reply-To: Code for Libraries CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 16:15:59 -0400 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Safari extensions Has anyone given thought to how hard it would be to port Firefox extensions such as LibX and Zotero to Chrome or Safari? (Am I the only one finding Firefox to be very slow compared to Chrome?) -Raymond On 8/5/10 1:10 PM, Godmar Back wrote: No, nothing beyond a quick read-through. The architecture is similar to Google Chrome's - which is perhaps not surprising given that both Safari and Chrome are based on WebKit - which for us at LibX means we should be able to leverage the redesign we did for LibX 2.0. A notable characteristic of this architecture is that content scripts that interact with a page are in a separate OS process from the main extensions' code, thus they have to communicate with the main extension via message passing rather than by exploiting direct method calls as in Firefox. - Godmar On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Eric Hellmane...@hellman.net wrote: Has anyone played with the new Safari extensions capability? I'm looking at you, Godmar. Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA e...@hellman.net http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ @gluejar
Re: [CODE4LIB] Safari extensions
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Raymond Yee y...@berkeley.edu wrote: Has anyone given thought to how hard it would be to port Firefox extensions such as LibX and Zotero to Chrome or Safari? (Am I the only one finding Firefox to be very slow compared to Chrome?) We have ported LibX to Chrome, see http://libx.org/releases/gc/ Put briefly, Chrome provides an extension API that is entirely JavaScript/HTML based. As such, existing libraries such as jQuery can be used to implement the extensions' user interface (such as LibX's search box, implemented as a browser action). Unlike Firefox, no coding in a special-purpose user interface markup language such as XUL is required. (That said, it's possible to achieve the same in Firefox, and in fact we're now using the same HTML/JS code in Firefox, reducing the XUL-specific to a minimum). Safari will use the same approach. Chrome also supports content scripts that interact with the page a user is looking at. These scripts live in an environment that is similar to the environment seen by client-side code coming from the origin. In this sense, it's very similar to how Firefox works with its sandboxes, with the exception mentioned in my previous email that all communication outside has to be done via message passing (sending JSON-encoded objects back and forth). - Godmar
[CODE4LIB] REST Fest 2010
I enjoyed being a part of the code4lib 2010 conference in Asheville this past February, and wanted to return the favor by inviting you all to come to an event I'm organizing in Greenville, SC. REST Fest 2010 and Hypermedia Workshop Friday, September 17, 2010 at 8:00 AM - Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 6:00 PM (ET) Greenville, SC Co-Chairs: Mike Amundsen Benjamin Young REST Fest 2010 (Sep 17th 18th) REST Fest is a community unconference event focused on the REST architectural style and implementations. This year, REST Fest will encourage developers who have direct experience building RESTful applications for the World Wide Web to share their successes and their frustrations in an informal atmosphere. REST Fest will also maintain a Hack Room open throughout the two-day event where attendees can get together and work on any project they like. http://restfest.org Call for Presenters In the spirit of the Unconference model, all talks are automatically accepted as a Lightning Talk (Five Slides in Five Minutes). Presenters are encouraged to submit a title, short abstract (250 or less), and an indication of the level of the talk (beginner, intermediate, advanced). How To... talks are encouraged as well as How Do I? talks. A small number of talks will be chosen as Selected Talks with a format of 30+ minutes. Break out sessions will be added as desired by the attendees. http://restfest2010.eventbrite.com/ Workshop: Hypermedia Hacking with Mike Amundsen (Sep 17th) In this one-day pre-event workshop, attendees will learn how to implement an alternative to one-off Web APIs using Hypermedia Engines. The all-day session includes a mix of presentation, discussion, and hands-on implementation. Attendees are encouraged to bring laptops and code-along with supplied examples throughout the day. http://www.restfest.org/schedule/workshop Thanks for reading, and I hope to see you there, Benjamin -- President BigBlueHat P: 864.232.9553 W: http://www.bigbluehat.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung
