Olugbenga Adara <gbengaadara@yahoo.com>
Around what time will you be in Brighton? I will also be in London for some days after Kohacon. May be we can meet up?
If you're around after KohaCon, I humbly draw your attention to this event run by me ol' muckers at OKFN: The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Biblio group, DevCSI and the Working Group on Open Data in Cultural Heritage, present BiblioHack: http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/2012/05/10/bibliohack/ an open Hackathon to kick-start the summer months. From Wednesday 13th – Thursday 14th June, we’ll be meeting at Queen Mary, University of London, East London, and any budding hackers are welcome, along with anyone interested in opening up metadata and the open cause – this free event aims to bring together software developers, project managers, librarians and experts in the area of Open Bibliographic Data. A workshop will run alongside the coding on the 13th, and a meet-up on the evening of the 12th is open to all whether you’re attending the Hackathon or not. What is BiblioHack? BiblioHack will be two days of hacking and sharing ideas about open bibliographic metadata. There will be opportunities to hack on open bibliographic datasets and experiment with new prototypes and tools. The focus will be on building things and improving existing systems that enable people and institutions to get the most of bibliographic data. If you’re a non-coder there are sessions for you too. We will be running a hands-on workshop addressing the technical aspects to opening up cultural heritage data looking at best of breed open source tools for doing that, preparing your data for a hackathon and the best standards for storing and exposing your data to make it more easily re-used. Thanks ---------------------------------------------- Mr Mahendra Mahey Project Manager DevCSI Research Officer Innovation Support Centre UKOLN University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY Mobile: ++44 (0) 07581069575 Fax: ++44 (0) 1225 386256 email: m.mahey@ukoln.ac.uk skypeID: mr_mahendra_mahey http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/ http://cerify.ukoln.ac.uk/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------- -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/