Access 2017 Conference Day 2 Notes Lightning Talks #accessYXE
Slack In/Out Board Integration
White board to keep track of people in/out/messages. Names of retired, people need to be reordered. No indications of when status was made, need to change date, sigh.
/slack emoji puts in your status. Monitoring bot allows you to see server status. Took Slack status with Slack AIP and messaging, can push to web page, new status board as monitor on the wall. Encouraging people to use Slack, date updates automatically, shows time of status update, can be updated remotely.
How works? User updates on slack, moves to campus server visible to outside world
inboard.usask.ca uses server-sent data to grab update.
Making Breaking Up Easier - Krista Godfrey
Change is hard, we can make it easier. UX and usability can help fix - test, test, test. Test always and often. test during RFP, test other instances, training (you are the first tester), sandbox (use staff and users), production (doesn't stop after launch). Terminology, back end, interface.
Usability/UX testing - A/B testing (other library instances, new vs old, terminology). Scenario based testing. Love/hate letters and how will new system improve it and how will you use your migration to do testing. Must make it a priority and include in the migration process at the various points.
Andrew Nagy w/EBSCO Director of Software Innovation Folio - Open Source Library Services Platform
Collaborative project with universities and vendors to build a platform. It is a platform for development, doesn't have to be an ILS, can be a development platform to work from, data storage, SAS based routing of requests. Doesnt have to be an ILS replacement - dev.folio.org
Innovation Challenge: $100,000 to give out to libraries. If want to build new tech or working on something and could use additional funding to help support--caveat - must be built on the Folio platform. $5-$20k awards. UIUC - equipment loan form and HOOT wait list service; Villanova VuFind. foliogrants@ebsco.com - don't need developers, there are folks interested you can partner with
Child Care at Conferences - Amy Patterson
Last Access, Kris Berg got pushback saying that you can get ore women in tech by taking down Star Trek posters. But a small thing you can do is consider childcare needs. Childcare concerns concern women in general more than men, and they affect women in more vulnerable positions disproportionately. Childraising coincides with precarious positions in early career. The why is obvious, the how is more complicated. Licensing, costly. No message is a message to stay home.
Megan Stecyk - Digital Citizenship in Curricula
Kindness online. If kids don't develop empathy by a certain age, will they be a troll forever?
Dale Askey on Leadership and Participation
If you are here, you care about applying and developing technology. If you self define as an administrator, raise your hand. (Few.) If not admins, how many have this in your vague career goal. Fairly few. How many of all participate actively in recruitment and hiring of higher admin (lots, halfhearted, but not everybody). Everyone should be. Disgruntlement and dissatisfaction by LibIT of not being part of core strategy. Legacy administrators whose consciousness formed in a preGoogle telnet greenscreen era and have a stranglehold on library leadership. Needle hasn't moved a great deal. It means we don't move forward and evolve fast enough for the academy or our communities. Urge admins to show up where technology is being talked about, here or elsewhere. CNI is a great one, but challenge them to go past that. if they don't go, come back and advertise it to them. Consider leadership yourself, be the change you want to see, blah blah, but it's true. And TAKE PAERT IN SEARCHES. Take a more active role.
Peter Binkley - WPA Union Catalog Project 1923(?)
(WWII workflow). Microfilm, film slides. Union catalog. ILL support, so only known items, author cards and serial cards. Find the cards and tip up so microfim technicians can see them easily. Recordak cameras for photographing file cards, get 16mm microfilm out of it. From lab, 100ft lengths of microfim with cards, now need to type them up. Stamping of cards, filed into union catalog. Extra cards back to source catalog (handwritten). Microfilm is great for this - a card with nonRoman characters can't go through typewriters; a card with a punched notch in the microfilm moves to fancy typewriter person in workflow.
Sara Allain - Acceptance Tests: Using Gherkin Syntax to define syntax
To simplify feature development process. Gherkin - acceptance test. Lets you describe software behavior without detailing how that behavior is implemented. Perfect for non-developers who need to define how a feature will work from user's perspective. Plain text, indents and line breaks. No markdown or markup. They use Googledoc. Serves two purposes: Documentation - before start a feature, have skeleton of documentation even before there's a feature to play with. Provides basis for automates tests (Archivematica and [other] does not, which gives huge burden of functional testing for applications before release). Developers use exact feature files to make automated tests. Lightweight and more focused than user stories.
github.com/artefactual-labs/archivematica-acceptance-tests
Clear enough that can share with collaborators (this is an encrypted AIP project).
Developers closely involved with feature scoping from the beginning, this is collaborative, not just giving them a document to work with. They use Selenium and behave to automate tests. Everyone has a better understanding of what the feature will or will not do.
Arduino - Cody Fullerton at U of M
Liaison librarian in science and socsci/hum library. Technology loans--students don't bring with them or don't have them. Computer science students need arduino, etc. Will be only in engineering/compsci library; documentation online for those who may not be familiar. Will test this and next semester, might be jumping point to lend others like RaspberryPis.
Open Access and Cost Per Use - Ryan [?]
"The State of OA" article available (might be preprint). Since 2015 45% of journal articles are open access. But we're still paying! Budget pressures, serial crisis. There has to be a way we can be more cost effective. paper IDed 4 types OA - Gold (author pays), Green (author places in repository), hybrid OA (some gold, some not, author pay), Bronze (OA journals that made items accessible, no copyright info, looks OA but status might change). When libraries are looking at journals we do cost per use, but a bunch of open access material is caught in there and not obvious. OA DOI will find an open access version of the article, picks up hybrid, repositories, bronze. OADOI just released v2 with ISSNs of journals. See what percentage of journal is open access. Bronze OA is still frustrating, temporary, don't know what's going on. We need an index that commits publishers to keeping that material open so always available in knowledge base, like DOAJ standardized Gold OA.
White board to keep track of people in/out/messages. Names of retired, people need to be reordered. No indications of when status was made, need to change date, sigh.
/slack emoji puts in your status. Monitoring bot allows you to see server status. Took Slack status with Slack AIP and messaging, can push to web page, new status board as monitor on the wall. Encouraging people to use Slack, date updates automatically, shows time of status update, can be updated remotely.
How works? User updates on slack, moves to campus server visible to outside world
inboard.usask.ca uses server-sent data to grab update.
Making Breaking Up Easier - Krista Godfrey
Change is hard, we can make it easier. UX and usability can help fix - test, test, test. Test always and often. test during RFP, test other instances, training (you are the first tester), sandbox (use staff and users), production (doesn't stop after launch). Terminology, back end, interface.
Usability/UX testing - A/B testing (other library instances, new vs old, terminology). Scenario based testing. Love/hate letters and how will new system improve it and how will you use your migration to do testing. Must make it a priority and include in the migration process at the various points.
Andrew Nagy w/EBSCO Director of Software Innovation Folio - Open Source Library Services Platform
Collaborative project with universities and vendors to build a platform. It is a platform for development, doesn't have to be an ILS, can be a development platform to work from, data storage, SAS based routing of requests. Doesnt have to be an ILS replacement - dev.folio.org
Innovation Challenge: $100,000 to give out to libraries. If want to build new tech or working on something and could use additional funding to help support--caveat - must be built on the Folio platform. $5-$20k awards. UIUC - equipment loan form and HOOT wait list service; Villanova VuFind. foliogrants@ebsco.com - don't need developers, there are folks interested you can partner with
Child Care at Conferences - Amy Patterson
Last Access, Kris Berg got pushback saying that you can get ore women in tech by taking down Star Trek posters. But a small thing you can do is consider childcare needs. Childcare concerns concern women in general more than men, and they affect women in more vulnerable positions disproportionately. Childraising coincides with precarious positions in early career. The why is obvious, the how is more complicated. Licensing, costly. No message is a message to stay home.
Megan Stecyk - Digital Citizenship in Curricula
Kindness online. If kids don't develop empathy by a certain age, will they be a troll forever?
Dale Askey on Leadership and Participation
If you are here, you care about applying and developing technology. If you self define as an administrator, raise your hand. (Few.) If not admins, how many have this in your vague career goal. Fairly few. How many of all participate actively in recruitment and hiring of higher admin (lots, halfhearted, but not everybody). Everyone should be. Disgruntlement and dissatisfaction by LibIT of not being part of core strategy. Legacy administrators whose consciousness formed in a preGoogle telnet greenscreen era and have a stranglehold on library leadership. Needle hasn't moved a great deal. It means we don't move forward and evolve fast enough for the academy or our communities. Urge admins to show up where technology is being talked about, here or elsewhere. CNI is a great one, but challenge them to go past that. if they don't go, come back and advertise it to them. Consider leadership yourself, be the change you want to see, blah blah, but it's true. And TAKE PAERT IN SEARCHES. Take a more active role.
Peter Binkley - WPA Union Catalog Project 1923(?)
(WWII workflow). Microfilm, film slides. Union catalog. ILL support, so only known items, author cards and serial cards. Find the cards and tip up so microfim technicians can see them easily. Recordak cameras for photographing file cards, get 16mm microfilm out of it. From lab, 100ft lengths of microfim with cards, now need to type them up. Stamping of cards, filed into union catalog. Extra cards back to source catalog (handwritten). Microfilm is great for this - a card with nonRoman characters can't go through typewriters; a card with a punched notch in the microfilm moves to fancy typewriter person in workflow.
Sara Allain - Acceptance Tests: Using Gherkin Syntax to define syntax
To simplify feature development process. Gherkin - acceptance test. Lets you describe software behavior without detailing how that behavior is implemented. Perfect for non-developers who need to define how a feature will work from user's perspective. Plain text, indents and line breaks. No markdown or markup. They use Googledoc. Serves two purposes: Documentation - before start a feature, have skeleton of documentation even before there's a feature to play with. Provides basis for automates tests (Archivematica and [other] does not, which gives huge burden of functional testing for applications before release). Developers use exact feature files to make automated tests. Lightweight and more focused than user stories.
github.com/artefactual-labs/archivematica-acceptance-tests
Clear enough that can share with collaborators (this is an encrypted AIP project).
Developers closely involved with feature scoping from the beginning, this is collaborative, not just giving them a document to work with. They use Selenium and behave to automate tests. Everyone has a better understanding of what the feature will or will not do.
Arduino - Cody Fullerton at U of M
Liaison librarian in science and socsci/hum library. Technology loans--students don't bring with them or don't have them. Computer science students need arduino, etc. Will be only in engineering/compsci library; documentation online for those who may not be familiar. Will test this and next semester, might be jumping point to lend others like RaspberryPis.
Open Access and Cost Per Use - Ryan [?]
"The State of OA" article available (might be preprint). Since 2015 45% of journal articles are open access. But we're still paying! Budget pressures, serial crisis. There has to be a way we can be more cost effective. paper IDed 4 types OA - Gold (author pays), Green (author places in repository), hybrid OA (some gold, some not, author pay), Bronze (OA journals that made items accessible, no copyright info, looks OA but status might change). When libraries are looking at journals we do cost per use, but a bunch of open access material is caught in there and not obvious. OA DOI will find an open access version of the article, picks up hybrid, repositories, bronze. OADOI just released v2 with ISSNs of journals. See what percentage of journal is open access. Bronze OA is still frustrating, temporary, don't know what's going on. We need an index that commits publishers to keeping that material open so always available in knowledge base, like DOAJ standardized Gold OA.
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