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<dt><strong>Conference Schedule</strong></dt>
<dd>Presentations are being added to the <a href="/2006/schedule">Conference Schedule</a> as we receive them.</dd>
<dd>Presentations are being added to the <a href="/conference/2006/schedule">Conference Schedule</a> as we receive them.</dd>

<dd>The final list of <a href="/2006/lightning">Lightning Talks</a> and <a href="/2006/breakouts">Breakout Sessions</a> are also available.</dd>
<dd>The final list of <a href="/conference/2006/lightning">Lightning Talks</a> and <a href="/conference/2006/breakouts">Breakout Sessions</a> are also available.</dd>

<dt><strong>Registration</strong></dt>

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<ul>
<li>Portland Airport (PDX) &#151; There is <a href="http://www.hutshuttle.com/">shuttle service</a> for $43 each way, direct to the hotel. (Choose the 'Corvallis' option from the shuttle website for the shuttle schedule) (Some people have reported that the web site reservation didn't work, and they had to call through.)</li>
<li>Eugene Airport (EUG) &#151; <a href="http://www.oregon.com/transportation/eugene_airport.cfm">shuttle options</a></li>
<li>There is some <a href="http://www.code4lib.org/2006/carpooling">carpooling</a></li>
<li>There is some <a href="/conference/2006/carpooling">carpooling</a></li>
</ul>
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<strong>Historical</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="/2006/proposals">Call for Proposals</a></li>
<li><a href="/conference/2006/proposals">Call for Proposals</a></li>
<li><a href="http://roytennant.com/dchud.jpg">Some foolishness that occurred during the conference</a></li>
</ul>
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excerpt: "<strong>Call for proposals - Code4lib 2006</strong>\r\n\r\nWe are now accepting
proposals for prepared talks for <a href=\"http://www.code4lib.org/2006\">Code4lib
proposals for prepared talks for <a href=\"http://www.code4lib.org/conference/2006\">Code4lib
2006</a>. Code4lib 2006 is a loosely structured conference for library technologists
to commune, gather/create/share ideas and software, be inspired, and forge collaborations.
It is also an outgrowth of the Access HackFest, wrapped into a conference-ish format.
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<strong>Call for proposals - Code4lib 2006</strong>

We are now accepting proposals for prepared talks for <a href="http://www.code4lib.org/2006">Code4lib 2006</a>. Code4lib 2006 is a loosely structured conference for library technologists to commune, gather/create/share ideas and software, be inspired, and forge collaborations. It is also an outgrowth of the Access HackFest, wrapped into a conference-ish format. It is *the* event for technologists building digital libraries and digital information systems, tools, and software.
We are now accepting proposals for prepared talks for <a href="/conference/2006">Code4lib 2006</a>. Code4lib 2006 is a loosely structured conference for library technologists to commune, gather/create/share ideas and software, be inspired, and forge collaborations. It is also an outgrowth of the Access HackFest, wrapped into a conference-ish format. It is *the* event for technologists building digital libraries and digital information systems, tools, and software.

At least six time slots will be available for prepared talks. We will choose from among the proposals based on diversity of topics, usefulness, wow factor, and potential impact.

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The deadline for proposing a talk has been extended one week to Jan. 9. We've already got several very cool proposals but more is better, and there's plenty of room for spillover in the lightning sessions and breakouts.

To submit, <a href="http://www.code4lib.org/2006">read this first</a> and then follow <a href="http://www.code4lib.org/proposals">these instructions</a>. Especially the 75-words-max part.
To submit, <a href="/conference/2006">read this first</a> and then follow <a href="http://www.code4lib.org/proposals">these instructions</a>. Especially the 75-words-max part.
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<a href="mailto:rchute@lanl.gov">Ryan Chute</a>

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<a href="http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/smith.htm">Devon Smith</a>

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<a href="http://onebiglibrary.net/">Dan Chudnov</a>

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<a href="http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~azaroth/">Rob Sanderson</a>

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<a href="http://br.endernet.org/~akrowne/elaine/">Aaron Krowne</a>

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<a href="http://www.eduworks.net/robby/">Robby Robson</a>

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<a href="http://maisonbisson.com/blog/">Casey Bisson</a>

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<a href="http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/hickeyt.htm">Thomas Hickey</a>

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Casey Durfee

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<a href="http://web2.uwindsor.ca/library/leddy/people/art/">Art Rhyno</a>

<a href="http://librarycog.uwindsor.ca:8087/artblog/librarycog/resources/erp/erp.html">Slides (html)</a>

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications are considered some of the largest and most complex systems ever written, and support many of the functions that libraries associate with the acquisitions and processing side of their operations. The information retrieval layers of library systems receive a lot of attention with good reason, but there’s also a body of standards and best practices for back office systems which libraries could benefit from as well. Open Source ERP systems offer options for libraries to take advantage of OMG standards and workflow engines, and this session will give an overview of some currently available ERP options.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebyryan/100266082/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/21/100266082_e382b0d510_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="code4lib2006" /></a>

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<a href="http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/~cwhitney/">Colleen Whitney</a>

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Jim Robertson

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Tigran Zargaryan

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<a href="http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee">Raymond Yee</a>

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<a href="http://roytennant.com/">Roy Tennant</a>

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<a href="http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/young.htm">Jeffrey A. Young</a>

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How many people will have registered by the official start of the conference? Which, by <a href="http://www.code4lib.org/2006/schedule">the schedule</a>, will be 0930 PST on February 15, 2006.
How many people will have registered by the official start of the conference? Which, by <a href="http://www.code4lib.org/conference/2006/schedule">the schedule</a>, will be 0930 PST on February 15, 2006.

Put your guess and your name/nick, in the list below, sorted by guess amount. Winner (closest to exact amount without going over) gets a six-pack of <a href="http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/BrewPub/OnTap/5832.aspx">black butte porter</a> from dchud. Seriously.

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The Code4Lib <a href="/2006/schedule">Conference Schedule</a> is now available. And what a lineup it is! From "Connecting Everything with unAPI and OPA" to "What Blog Applications Can Teach Us About Library Software Architecture" and many geeky points in-between, this is clearly the library tech fest of the century. Until, that is, we do it all again next year.
The Code4Lib <a href="/conference/2006/schedule">Conference Schedule</a> is now available. And what a lineup it is! From "Connecting Everything with unAPI and OPA" to "What Blog Applications Can Teach Us About Library Software Architecture" and many geeky points in-between, this is clearly the library tech fest of the century. Until, that is, we do it all again next year.

With two keynotes, 15 prepared talks, a ton of lightning talks, two generous breakout periods for unplanned mayhem, and evening socializing, what's not to like? If I were you, man, I'd like stop trying to debug my crappy code and <a href="https://secure.oregonstate.edu/ocse/register.php?event=108">register</a>. You know, before it's too late.
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<a href="http://microformats.org"><img src="http://microformats.org/img/mf-lg-ora.gif" border=0 style="padding: 15px;" align="left"></a>

With a bit of <a href="http://www.textualize.com/trac/browser/code4lib/calgen.py">python</a> the code4lib 2006 <a href="/2006/schedule">schedule</a> has been encoded using the <a href="http://www.microformats.com/wiki/hcalendar">hCalendar</a> microformat. hCalendar allows you to bundle up event information so it is available downstream to machines that crawl the content, while keeping the content readable for us humans. It is really very easy to grok, and the only reason for the script was to avoid repetitive typing.
With a bit of <a href="http://www.textualize.com/trac/browser/code4lib/calgen.py">python</a> the code4lib 2006 <a href="/conference/2006/schedule">schedule</a> has been encoded using the <a href="http://www.microformats.com/wiki/hcalendar">hCalendar</a> microformat. hCalendar allows you to bundle up event information so it is available downstream to machines that crawl the content, while keeping the content readable for us humans. It is really very easy to grok, and the only reason for the script was to avoid repetitive typing.

Here's what a sample event looks like in hCalendar:

<code type="html">
<dt class="vevent">
<abbr class="dtstart" title="2006-02-15T19:05:00Z">11:05</abbr>- <abbr class="dtend" title="2006-02-15T19:25:00Z">11:25</abbr> -
<abbr class="dtstart" title="2006-02-15T19:05:00Z">11:05</abbr>- <abbr class="dtend" title="2006-02-15T19:25:00Z">11:25</abbr> -
<span class="summary">
<a href="http://www.code4lib.org/2006/chudnov" class="uri">
<a href="/conference/2006/chudnov" class="uri">
Connecting Everything with unAPI and OPA</a> - Dan Chudnov</span>
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URL:http://www.code4lib.org/conference/2006/chudnov
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<p>"The objective of unAPI is to enable web sites with <span class="caps">HTML</span> interfaces to information-rich objects to simultaneously publish richly structured metadata for those objects, or those objects themselves, in a predictable and consistent way for machine processing."</p>

This specification is being developed under the <a href="http://curtis.med.yale.edu/dchud/log/project/rogue/announcing-rogue-05">ROGUE 05</a> process. The next revision, revision 1, is due on Thursday, 16 Feb 2006, and is dependent on at least three working implementations to move forward. That date is also day 2 of <a href="http://code4lib.org/2006">code4lib 2006</a>; I will be speaking about unAPI on day 1, and hopefully we'll have a breakout session following up the talk which will be a great time to discuss the spec, to try implementing it, and to work on revision 1 for release the next day. :)
This specification is being developed under the <a href="http://curtis.med.yale.edu/dchud/log/project/rogue/announcing-rogue-05">ROGUE 05</a> process. The next revision, revision 1, is due on Thursday, 16 Feb 2006, and is dependent on at least three working implementations to move forward. That date is also day 2 of <a href="http://code4lib.org/conference/2006">code4lib 2006</a>; I will be speaking about unAPI on day 1, and hopefully we'll have a breakout session following up the talk which will be a great time to discuss the spec, to try implementing it, and to work on revision 1 for release the next day. :)

We are tracking milestones, notes, and document revisions within a private basecamp project, but interested parties are welcome to participate (contact me for access).

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On Wednesday and Thursday there are 1 hour 15 minute slots for <i>Lightning Talks</i>. A lightning talk is a fast paced 5 minute talk on the topic of your choosing. If you'd like to do a lightning talk please add your name, topic to this page. You can do more than one if you want, but if the lots fill up (there are 30 of them) you might have to choose which one you want to do.

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Wednesday, February 15

<ol>
<li>Total Eclipse Of My Brain (Ed Summers)</li>
<li>[Link PURLs|http://purl.org/net/linkpurl] and Firefox (Devon Smith)</li>
<li>Call to Action: Deprecate OAI Sets! (Rob Sanderson)</li>
<li>Cross-Site Scripting Attacks (Eric Hellman)</li>
<li>Object Relational Mapping in 21 days^W^W 5 minutes (Ed Summers)</li>
<li>The Amazing Linkr8r 3 min (Charles Lockwood)</li>
<li>Making the case for Link Resolver Routers (Ross Singer)</li>
<li>Down and Dirty Metadata Analysis (Roy Tennant)</li>
<li>Total Eclipse Of My Brain (Ed Summers)</li>
<li><a href="http://purl.org/net/linkpurl">Link PURLs</a> and Firefox (Devon Smith)</li>
<li>Call to Action: Deprecate OAI Sets! (Rob Sanderson)</li>
<li>Cross-Site Scripting Attacks (Eric Hellman)</li>
<li>Object Relational Mapping in 21 days^W^W 5 minutes (Ed Summers)</li>
<li>The Amazing Linkr8r 3 min (Charles Lockwood)</li>
<li>Making the case for Link Resolver Routers (Ross Singer)</li>
<li>Down and Dirty Metadata Analysis (Roy Tennant)</li>
</ol>

Thursday, February 16

<ol>
<li>LinkPURLs and Firefox (Devon Smith)</li>
<li>xISBN and Bookmarklets (Jeff Young)</li>
<li>(Vendors - ) Give us Our Data! (Aaron Krowne)</li>
<li>How to Share User Data without getting Subpoenaed (Casey Durfee)</li>
<li>Repurpose/Syndication of Scopus DB Results on Library Webpages (Jim Robertson)</li>
<li>Perl Script for Interpreting LC Call Numbers (Jeff Davis)</li>
<li>OCLC License (Thom Hickey)</li>
<li>Google Maps and SVG (Art Rhyno)</li>
<li>Extending and Customizing Moveable Type for Library Weblogs (Karen Coombs)</li>
<li>The COinS Generator (Eric Hellman)</li>
<li>Standardized Image Production and Metadata Storage for Libraries and Archives (John Sarnowski)</li>
<li><a href="http://library.pub.getty.edu:8100/code4lib06.html">Using heuristics to improve OpenURL linking to OPAC holdings</a> (Tom Burton-West)</li>
<li>Spreading the word about code for libraries: [a book project |http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=91] (Mark Dahl)</li>
<li>Backend Agnostic Customization with "brand files" (Brian Tingle)</li>
<li>MARC is UNdead or how what will the catalog look like when most resources are electronic? (Kyle Banerjee)</li>
<li>Exposing yourself^W^W data where users are looking (Walter Lewis)</li>
<li>EOIN & Oddments (Noel Peden)</li>
<li>PLINKIT - websites for the small public library (Darci Hanning)</li>
<li> Quick Look at MarcEdit 5.0 (Terry Reese)</li>
<li>Why Libraries Should Support the Free Software Foundation (Dan Chudnov)</li>
<li>LinkPURLs and Firefox (Devon Smith)</li>
<li>xISBN and Bookmarklets (Jeff Young)</li>
<li>(Vendors - ) Give us Our Data! (Aaron Krowne)</li>
<li>How to Share User Data without getting Subpoenaed (Casey Durfee)</li>
<li>Repurpose/Syndication of Scopus DB Results on Library Webpages (Jim Robertson)</li>
<li>Perl Script for Interpreting LC Call Numbers (Jeff Davis)</li>
<li>OCLC License (Thom Hickey)</li>
<li>Google Maps and SVG (Art Rhyno)</li>
<li>Extending and Customizing Moveable Type for Library Weblogs (Karen Coombs)</li>
<li>The COinS Generator (Eric Hellman)</li>
<li>Standardized Image Production and Metadata Storage for Libraries and Archives (John Sarnowski)</li>
<li><a href="http://library.pub.getty.edu:8100/code4lib06.html">Using heuristics to improve OpenURL linking to OPAC holdings</a> (Tom Burton-West)</li>
<li>Spreading the word about code for libraries: <a href="http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=91">a book project</a> (Mark Dahl)</li>
<li>Backend Agnostic Customization with "brand files" (Brian Tingle)</li>
<li>MARC is UNdead or how what will the catalog look like when most resources are electronic? (Kyle Banerjee)</li>
<li>Exposing yourself^W^W data where users are looking (Walter Lewis)</li>
<li>EOIN & Oddments (Noel Peden)</li>
<li>PLINKIT - websites for the small public library (Darci Hanning)</li>
<li> Quick Look at MarcEdit 5.0 (Terry Reese)</li>
<li>Why Libraries Should Support the Free Software Foundation (Dan Chudnov)</li>
</ol>

Friday, February 17

<ol>
<li>Native XML Database Demo (Al Cornish)</li>
<li>Choose Your Own Adventure Conference (Devon Smith)</li>
<li>OCLC Software Contest (Thom Hickey)</li>
<li>Panizzi!! (Walter Lewis, with Peter Binkley virtually)</li>
<li>Native XML Database Demo (Al Cornish)</li>
<li>Choose Your Own Adventure Conference (Devon Smith)</li>
<li>OCLC Software Contest (Thom Hickey)</li>
<li>Panizzi!! (Walter Lewis, with Peter Binkley virtually)</li>
<ol>
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<p><strong>Wednesday, February 15</strong></p>

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The <a href="http://open-ils.org/">Evergreen team</a> presented a "virtual keynote" that consisted of a PowerPoint presentation (see below), a conference call and someone on stage to run things.