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Randy Oldham and Adam Doan (University of Guelph)

- Slides: http://accessconference.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-Access-Conference.pptx
- review of AODA - introduced June 2005+
- WCAG 2 - web content a11y guidelines, developed by W3C
- Jan 1, 2016 deadline
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Lisa Goddard (University of Victoria)

- Slides: http://accessconference.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Goddard_Access2015_draft5.pptx
- DH and libraries have overlapping needs/strengths/weaknesses:
- DH researchers have 3-5 year funding cycles, but don't have steady funding for infrastructure; whereas libraries have more steady funding for basic infrastructure but not for digital collections development
- libraries have a deep, permanent labour pool that can't be changed quickly; DH have a labour pool of students that change frequently
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### Alan Harnum (TPL)

- Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14fP_XmLil0kSVuX16Li8OaPulvRfReKxPTUpyaGhV4k/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.p
- was part of e-services team, which is not information technology team
- defined cloud as "buying computing on demand"
- wanted to buy servers when needed, and use desired tools/languages
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Thomas Guignard (Ontario Colleges Library Service)

- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/thomasguignard/disintegrate
- Transcript: http://bit.ly/accessdaleks
- hilarious (because the truth is funnier than fiction) monologue in style of Welcome to Night Vale podcast
- OPAC vs. discovery layer
- OPAC's acquisition module duplicated by institution's accounting department
- OPAC's serials module also duplicated in holdings records
- keep OPAC just for circulation module - but have to create pipeline for institution authentication
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/thomasguignard/disintegrate
- Transcript: http://bit.ly/accessdaleks
- GF: this was my favourite presentation of Access (and I believe for many others too)!


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Daniel Sifton (Vancouver Island University)

- Slides: https://github.com/telezoic/Headless-Battle
- based on work of Kristina Spurgin's E-Book Access Checker (http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9684)
- JRuby/Celerity
- celerity is no longer maintained; error handling difficult
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- Python/BS4
- champion
- future - journals
- github.com/telezoic/headless-battle


## Ensmartening the Web
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Lydia Zvyagintseva (University of Toronto Scarborough)

- Slides: https://www.haikudeck.com/in-our-own-words-libraries-makerspaces-and-community-engagement-uncategorized-presentation-kaJTxAmxOV#
- @openedmonton
- founder of Open Edmonton - vision is to improve civic life through improvement of open data
- it all started with recording studios in Edmonton Public Libraries
- civic engagement - did oral histories ("In Your Own Words" project) at the EPL recording studios; did project for 8 weeks; placed oral histories on SoundCloud
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- plan (ethics, metadata)
- promotion and outreach
- platform
- @openedmonton


## Héritage: Metadata Challenges and Opportunities

Julienne Pascoe (Canadiana)

- Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PV4ubFipOSaLp6kWdzlkv5r9s-vQKrsRXXPac0SJWGc/edit#slide=id.p3
- canadiana.ca - CRL trust-worthy digital repository; 2nd after ScholarsPortal
- Héitage - 60 million pages of documents
- metadata challenges - archival material, much of it hand-written; need to do collection-level analysis for determining what metadata to create
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Robert Warren (Carleton University) and Sharon Farnel (University of Alberta)

- Slides: https://github.com/muninn/PC-Access2015
- UA had set of digitized postcards (Peel Prairie Postcards Collection)
- had rich set of metadata available in the collection
- were looking to document process and try to offload to machines/automation
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- Excel is the enemy of data quality
- separate the data from the application
- RDF/LOD allows you to publish data, document it and (sometimes) fix mistakes later on
- https://github.com/muninn/PC-Access2015
- comment that PCDM is creating some core ontologies that can be shared across all data and still allow collections to have uniqueness

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### Ian, Stacey and Danielle

- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Ian_Bigelow/the-impact-of-linked-data-in-digital-curation-and-application-to-the-cataloguers-workflow-53157325
- MARC is ancient but it has survived due to its strengths
- OCLS is trying to implement linked data in cataloguing workflow
- also working on implementing MARC in modular way and using RDF
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Mita Williams (University of Windsor)

- Slides: http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/09/library-of-cards.html
- referenced 99% Invisible podcast about design (http://99percentinvisible.org/)
- Markus Krajewski - "Paper Machines" book - posits card catalogue happened very early (1780s? in Vienna)
- French revolutionaries 1781 had to catalogue what books they now owned and came up with a system of using playing cards
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