Spring 2015, Meeting #1 (01/05, 3pm, McK B0228)

[jwestgard]

Please let us know in advance if you need to borrow a laptop or would like to attend this meeting remotely. If requested, we'll use this virtual meeting: https://webmeeting.umd.edu/umd-coding-workshop.

Preparation

• Continue working on Code Academy.
• Think about project ideas or contribute to a project.
• Think about topics you'd like to learn more about in 2015.

  Agenda

• Questions/Comments from previous meetings, Codecademy lessons, etc.
• Planning for 2015 (topics for discussion, projects, etc.).
• Hands-on activity.

[jwestgard]

Thanks everyone for a great meeting. We had a good brainstorm about topics for discussion at future meetings. Here they are in no particular order, though I did re-sort them a bit to put related topics near one another; I've put down the names of those who indicated an ability to present on these topics, but that doesn't preclude additional folks lending a hand:

1. Jekyll and static site generators, esp. with small data sets (Josh);
2. Websites and microdata (Karl);
3. RDFa and other aspects of linked data embedded in websites;
4. XML, transforming it, parsing it, etc.;
5. Screen scraping (Beautiful Soup, etc.);
6. Python applications for reading the file system and manipulating files and/or doing image analysis, etc.;
7. Regular expressions (Peter), esp with MARCedit;
8. Hathi Trust, UMD's contributions (Bria);
9. Using open refine to fix up Hathi trust metadata, etc. (Ed, and maybe Trevor?);
10. Hathi Trust's Perl-based metadata preparation suite;
11. Twitter bot demo (Ed)
12. Aspects of dealing with large files/datasets in dspace (esp. with respect to the Ferguson Twitter data);
13. EGD database demo (Karl and Robin);

I put my own idea first not out of a desire to stack the deck, but because we don't have a topic for the next meeting; I'll use that as the back up topic for next week unless someone else would like to volunteer to present on one of these topics on 01/12? Any takers?