+Wednesday, February 15+
*Building a library IM bot.* As suggested by Ed Vielmetti, it would be handy to provide bots that patrons can add as buddies to their AIM, MSN, or Yahoo IM accounts. Features might include:
* catalogue searching
* library hours
* my account information (at least display it, and maybe renew books too?)
* contact information for circ desks, liaison librarians etc.
* forward a reference question to a librarian IM account
*Developing unAPI and w/unAPI*
Discuss open issues on the spec and prepare a revision for release on 2/16 (day 2 of code4lib). Also a good time to learn more about what it can do for you, and to try implementing it, too! -dchud
*Developing an Interface for Federated Search engines or for an OPAC interface*
How are we all facing the issue of developing a well-designed and architected interface for a federated search engine or an OPAC? What are we missing, what is necessary, what is the "killer-app"?
Suggested By Andrew Nagy
+Thursday, February 16+
14:15-15:45 - The future of code4lib (Roy Tennant)
*More Lipstick on a Pig: Improving OPACs*
Share ideas for ways to improve OPACs either by hacking/adding services/integrating services with vendor supplied OPACs or by exporting the data and presenting it in a custom app.
(Tom Burton-West)
*Building a library IM bot.* As suggested by Ed Vielmetti, it would be handy to provide bots that patrons can add as buddies to their AIM, MSN, or Yahoo IM accounts. Features might include:
* catalogue searching
* library hours
* my account information (at least display it, and maybe renew books too?)
* contact information for circ desks, liaison librarians etc.
* forward a reference question to a librarian IM account
*Developing unAPI and w/unAPI*
Discuss open issues on the spec and prepare a revision for release on 2/16 (day 2 of code4lib). Also a good time to learn more about what it can do for you, and to try implementing it, too! -dchud
*Developing an Interface for Federated Search engines or for an OPAC interface*
How are we all facing the issue of developing a well-designed and architected interface for a federated search engine or an OPAC? What are we missing, what is necessary, what is the "killer-app"?
Suggested By Andrew Nagy
+Thursday, February 16+
14:15-15:45 - The future of code4lib (Roy Tennant)
*More Lipstick on a Pig: Improving OPACs*
Share ideas for ways to improve OPACs either by hacking/adding services/integrating services with vendor supplied OPACs or by exporting the data and presenting it in a custom app.
(Tom Burton-West)