CURATEcamp

Thanks for registering for CURATEcamp: Catalogers and Coders at DLF Fall Forum! We're looking forward to meeting with you all next Wednesday. We'll be meeting in Constellation C from 9:00AM – 5:00PM. (Lunch, if I recall correctly, is on your own.)

CURATEcamp: Catalogers and Coders is an opportunity for metadata specialists and technologists to engage in interactive problem solving and exploration of topics of joint interest, especially in the area of Linked Data. A primary goal is clear articulation of problems related to metadata within the library community, and the beginning of plans that can be taken back to home institutions to address them.

This event is being held under the CURATEcamp umbrella, and as such will be structured as an "unconference" with the agenda for the day being set by participants at the event.

The morning will be spent articulating common problems and setting the scope for future work. We'll start out the day by giving individual introductions and brief statements on metadata- or tool-oriented problems that we face regularly in our work lives. The afternoon will be spent in groups tackling individual problem statements, and taking the first steps towards planning for solutions.

What you can do between now and then is think about the issue(s) -- problems you encounter, tools you'd like to see tweaked, metadata consistency issues that keep you up at night, use cases, itches you'd like to see scratched -- you'll highlight during the morning session, and what you'd like to see folks discuss and work on throughout the day at the camp. We've set aside some wiki space for folks to toss up ideas.

I would also encourage you all to attend Suzanne Pilsk's and Robin Wendler's session on retooling LAM metadata tools, which is something of a sister to our proposal. (Though it may already be full, you might try to get on the waitlist.) Comment here to "register."

If you have any questions about the event, feel free to email me and I will forward to my co-planners. Or find us at DLF on Monday and Tuesday -- maybe we'll run into each other at a pub.

See you all in Baltimore!

-Mike, on behalf of co-planners Diane Hillmann, Jenn Riley, and Declan Fleming

CURATEcamp "Catalogers & Coders" will be taking place at DLF on Wednesday, November 2nd this year. It's DLF's Developers Roundtable event.

Here's the proposal that just got accepted by DLF:

Title
Developers’ Roundtable: CURATEcamp: Catalogers & Coders

Session leader
Declan Fleming, Mike Giarlo, Diane Hillmann, Jon Phipps, Jenn Riley

Session genre
Developers’ Roundtable / Working Session

Proposal description (max: 400 words)

“The Developers’ Roundtable is intended for technology developers, technical managers, or those representatives that have influence in technical decision-making at their institutions. This gathering provides dedicated time at the DLF Forum to meet together to share problems, ideas, and solutions of a technical nature.” -- http://www.diglib.org/community/groups/developers/

CURATEcamp is a series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation. One of CURATEcamp's strengths is that it brings a broad audience together: librarians and archivists; technologists and catalogers; library administrators and systems administrators; software developers, users, architects, and designers.

CURATEcamp: Catalogers & Coders is DLF Fall Forum’s Developers’ Roundtable, focusing on connecting professional catalogers and library software developers. The roles played by catalogers and developers lie on the same continuum, and yet these two groups do not necessarily have many opportunities to engage one another in the workplace.

This camp aims to:
Expose common pain points from both communities
Identify opportunities for coder/cataloger collaboration
Find practical next steps to further LODLAM discussion
Apply LODLAM work in both professional contexts

As an unconference, the attendees determine the entirety of the agenda; one of the Camp model’s features is the serendipity and opportunity presented by an open agenda and format. Ideas will be solicited from attendees in advance and stored on the CURATEcamp wiki. Session leaders will seed the wiki page with examples. See: http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/CURATEcamp_DLF_Ideas
Draft program

Morning
“Lightning“ session where each attendee gets 3-5 minutes to introduce him/herself and illuminate a relevant professional problem; attendees will be encouraged to develop a pitch in advance. This session will be followed by voting on the problems raised by the group.

Break

Pre-lunch
Regroup around selected problems, build groups to work on them, set scope for work.

Lunch
Encourage groups to lunch together

Afternoon
Groups develop use cases, proposals for ways to solve the problem, and/or a pitch for applying institutional effort to the problem. Focus on making the proposals understandable and attractive to funders and those making decisions on developer allocation. Depending on the group’s starting point, they may also use this time to start working through solutions (writing code, posting documentation, etc.) Participants in each group may then bring the use cases, proposals, pitches, documentation, or code back to their home institutions to apply them locally.

Post-Afternoon
Encourage groups to drink and dine together

Abstract (max: 100 words)

CURATEcamp: Catalogers & Coders is DLF Fall Forum’s Developers’ Roundtable, focusing on connecting professional catalogers and library software developers. The roles played by catalogers and developers lie on the same continuum and yet these two groups do not necessarily have many opportunities to engage one another in the workplace. As an unconference, the attendees determine the entirety of the agenda; one of the Camp’s features is serendipitous engagement.

Aims:
Expose common pain points from both communities
Identify opportunities for coder/cataloger collaboration
Find practical next steps to further LODLAM discussion
Apply LODLAM work in both professional contexts

Here is the final attendee list for the camp. Let us know if we missed you on the list!

http://curatecamp.org/sites/default/files/OR11%20attendees%20final%20v1.pdf

If you're flying in to the Bay Area for CURATEcamp 2011 and you're interested in traveling between Stanford campus and the airport via taxi or shuttle, check out the ride-sharing page on the CURATEcamp wiki.

Thanks to Nick Ruest for getting this started.

We have more campers!

Plenty of space left, so come join us!

Register here. http://www.regonline.com/curatecamp2011

Here is the current attendee list.

http://curatecamp.org/sites/default/files/CCamp2011%20Attendee%20v1.pdf

Plenty of space left, so come join us!

Register here. http://www.regonline.com/curatecamp2011

Have some session ideas for CURATEcamp 2011 that you would like to lead? Go to http://bit.ly/kTJSAR and slap them in!

CURATEcamp 2011 attendees who are wondering how best to get to Palo Alto in August might wish to take a look at this helpful resource from Stanford University:

http://transportation.stanford.edu/alt_transportation/airport.shtml

CURATEcamp 2011, August 15-16, Palo Alto, CA

WHEN: August 15-16, 2011 (8am - 5pm)
WHERE: Meyer & Green Libraries, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
COST: $125 (includes meals from dinner on the 14th until lunch on the 16th, and lodging if you need it -- one bed in a double room in Stern Hall)

CURATEcamp 2011 is a two-day unconference connecting practitioners of digital curation with technologists and software developers.

Space is limited to 120 registrants, so reserve your spot while you can:

http://www.regonline.com/curatecamp2011

CURATEcamp 2011 is generously sponsored by the Pennsylvania State University; the Storage Networking Industry Association; the University of California, Los Angeles; Indiana University; and the Digital Library Federation (Council on Library and Information Resources). To keep costs low, we are also soliciting additional sponsors. If your institution is interested in fostering community around the practice of digital curation, please contact Katherine Kott.

More information

More information about CURATEcamp is available at http://curatecamp.org/.

Have questions about the camp? Please join the Digital Curation group and fire away.

-CURATEcamp 2011 Unorganizers
Katherine Kott
Mike Giarlo
Declan Fleming

We're glad you're coming to CURATEcamp #OR11! The camp may be very different from other conferences you've attended. This post is meant to provide some orientation around what you can expect of CURATEcamp.

HOW TO PREPARE FOR CURATECAMP

Be prepared to participate: come with an idea or two for topics in digital curation -- tools, frameworks, workflows, policies, resources, services, etc. -- that interest you. Even better, add that idea to the ideas list in advance to get the creative juices flowing before the event.

When we meet as a group, we’ll vote on which topics to discuss and in what order.

Propose any topic that interests you and contribute to the conversation however you can. We all bring different perspectives: you can add data points to advance the discussion; you can ask questions that others might not have considered; you can demonstrate something.

CAMPING 101

Make your way to Room 1.124 of Perry Castañeda Library, where you may find food (we're working on the logistics still) and fellow Campers to socialize with. At around 8:45am we’ll settle in our seats, aiming to start the event at 9am. (The room is open to us at 8am, for those who are early risers.)

CURATEcamp #OR11 will follow the “open agenda” model. The meeting has no preset agenda on purpose; the point is to connect folks who are eager to share their perspectives and hear those of others. The Camp’s overarching theme is digital curation. We intend for the event to be equally interesting to diverse practitioners, whether you develop software, manage day-to-day operation of a repository, or curate digital materials.

We will sit in a roughly circular configuration, introduce ourselves, and say a few words about the kind of work we do and what we'd like to discuss. Our chair will then ask for proposed topics, recording them for future reference, and then we'll chunk the discussions into 30 minute slots. At the end of each 30 minute slot, we will vote on continuing the current topic or moving to the next one. People are encouraged to add topics to the list during breaks and lunch.

Around 3pm, we will begin wrapping up the discussion; we lose access to the room at 3:30pm. After the event, we'd like to keep everyone together for drinks so you can discuss what you've heard today and network with peers! We're not sure about the logistics on this yet, so keep tuned to http://curatecamp.org and the digital-curation list for details.

WHAT YOU CAN DO BETWEEN NOW AND THE CAMP

First and foremost, think about some digital curation related topics you'd like to discuss. When you're ready, add them to the list.

You may engage fellow Campers in advance of the Camp in a few different ways:

• Search your favorite index or social network for the Camp tag, "#CURATEcamp", and discover other Campers
• Tag your own stuff with "#CURATEcamp" and "#OR11" so other Campers can find you
• Follow @CURATEcamp on Twitter
• Write to the digital-curation list
• Jump on the Freenode IRC network and join the #curatecamp channel

If you have any questions or requests, send them to Mike Giarlo, Declan Fleming, or Ryan Scherle.

RESOURCES

• Perry Castañeda Library on a map
• Possible post event gathering spots
• Open Repositories Conference Site