OLA HackfestWednesday, 9 AM-1 PM

The set-up

● Registrants proposed sessions in the weeks leading up to Super Conference

● 45 participants from 36 different institutions

● 9:00: Present your idea

● 9:30: Get to work!

Landing Gear Family Tree: Book APIs

“Random House has released an API for author Kate Pullinger’s new novel, Landing Gear. What can we do with this API to create new ways of thinking about this book? How can we leverage other APIs to connect this book to the internet?”- Sally Wilson, Ryerson University

Sally Wilson (Ryerson), Dana Thomas (Ryerson), Helen Kula (UTM), Pat Gracey (TPL), Lisa Smith (Chatham-Kent PL), Eric Heesen (Glengary-Stormont), Linda (school)

Pinpointing Poetry

“Toronto Public Library has compiled a dataset of poems that reference Toronto neighbourhoods and landmarks. The end goal is to create a ‘literary map’ experience. How can we transform this data to create something useable for an application?”- Alan Harnum, TPL

Lina Kim (TPL), Sarah Wiebe (George Brown), Enid Wray (Etobicoke School of the Arts), Karina Douglas (Timmins PL)

Mapping OLA Attendees

“The OLA office collects data about where Super Conference attendees come from. Let’s visualize who’s here!”- Michelle Arbuckle, OLA

Rebecca Larocque (North Bay PL), Jeanette Hatherill (U of Ottawa), Christopher Jasztrab (Brampton PL), Tim Ribraric (Brock U), Julie Andrews-Jothom (Brampton PL), Jeff Toste (TPL), Neil Arsenault (Wellington County PL)

Mapping Recreation - Edmonton PL

“The Edmonton Public Library releases all of its branch location and local program data. I would love to see the programs data on a map that indicates where and when different things are happening.”- Peter Maguire (Edmonton PL)

Peter Maguire (Edmonton PL), Stephen Wood (Bruce Country PL), Alan Harnum (PL)

Staff Digital Competencies “Oshawa Public Libraries surveyed all public library staff about their digital device competency and comfort. We’ve got a large data set and a large collection of derived statistics. How can we map, tabulate, improve upon and use this data? How does a library map its staff’s technology competencies?” - Aaron Kimberly (Oshawa PL)

Aaron Kimberly (Oshawa PL), Monica Fazekas (U Western), Margaret Wallace (Oshawa PL), “someone from Waterloo PL”

Playing with the Bibliocommons API

Improving an existing Twitter bot that recommends books at Ottawa Public Library using the Bibliocommons API, a.k.a. testing the limits :-)- Sarah Simpkin (U of Ottawa)

Francine Berish (Queen’s), Marc d’Avernas (WRDSB), Lindsay Shaw (Mohawk College), Sarah Simpkin (uOttawa), Arouce Wasty (uOttawa)

Clearing the Path to Embedded Metadata for the TPL Digital Archive

“There are Dublin Core data in the TPL archive that aren’t surfaced in the public facing web pages. Dan Scott recommended using Open Graph and Schema.org to surface the data.- Dan Scott & Donna MacLeod

Dan Scott (Laurentian U), Geoff Sinclair (NBSOL), Donna MacLeod (TPL) ft. John Fink (McMaster U)