Past talk topics

This page lists the meetings and talks that have been shared as part of the all-libraries series of Lightning Talks

Friday, December 28, 2018

Zines all the time: Zine Union Catalog, Zine Librarian (Un)Conference, Massachuetts Feminist Zine Fest Librarian Skillshare (Rhonda Kauffman)
A data wrangling problem (Ben Abrahamse)
Highlights of "Emerging Technology and Inclusive User Experiences" talk by Gary Aussant, Director of Digital Accessibility / Perkins School of the Blind (Darcy Duke - my notes)
How TPIE project managers manage ourselves- jumpstart retreat for self care, sanity and focus (Christine Quirion–remote)
How About Machine Learning Enhancing Theses? (Andromeda Yelton)

Coding so people can use stuff. Basic a11y testing. (Jeremy Prevost)
What if you did very bad things with integers: Or, How the CPython sausage is made (Andromeda Yelton)
- – .key (includes fun transitions but requires Keynote), .pdf (more widely openable but transitions may be unreadable)
Virginia Eubanks & Automating Inequality (Kim Maxwell)
How to be your own MVP (Christine Quirion)
Libreplanet! (Phoebe Ayers)
Research Data Alliance (Amy Nurnberger)

We have expanded our audience for this round of Lightning Talks, and have extended invitations to the staff of ADE and DSS.

Mobirise static site generator (Matt Bernhardt)
Normalization of deviance in software (Mike Graves)
Highlights from the NEASIST program on APIs in January - My notes from the day (Darcy Duke)
Reveal.js + Jekyll + GitHub Pages = 🌈🦄 (Jeremy Prevost)
Drones, GIS, and site photography (Daniel Sheehan)

Gradual Typing in Python (Mike)
The 15-minute rule: "You must try, and then you must ask" (Matt)
DevOps Interest Group (Jeremy)
libpmp, Waltzing with Bears, and quantifying software project risk (Andromeda) - .key (includes cool effects/requires Keynote), .pdf (sometimes unreadable but easier to open)
Value and Reference Types (Richard)

Recent enhancements to SFX links in Barton and BartonPlus (Rich)
Overview of results from the PM's retrospective of ITIG1 projects (Christine Q)
Chalice: ruling a domain without a server (Mike)
- https://gravesm.github.io/talks/chalice.html
FOISTing data into the PIT: a brief overview of the TDM DSpace-to-Fedora pipeline (Helen)
LibraryDevOps Days Distilled: 5 minute summary of 2 full days of active discussion (Jeremy)
Spec Driven development in Fedora/TDM project Slides (Richard)
Project pitch: fixing library hours (Matt)

OCLC+ Shelf-ready workflow improvements via batch load adjustments. (Christine)
DOT graph description language (Jeremy)
- describe a graph in plain text so the source can be included as documentation in code repositories and easily updated
- slides
You are in a maze of twisty containers, all unversioned. (Mike)
- http://gist-reveal.it/74127543343681be98467f64fba760b3
- What I learned about working with Fedora, Kubernetes and Elasticsearch on the TDM project.
Interpreting a topic model of DSpace abstracts (Osman)
Demo of the new more accessible main nav on libraries.mit.edu

We're doing it all wrong: Functional Programming (Richard)
- Slides
Vagrant for Dev Teams (Jeremy)
- https://github.com/JPrevost/mit_vagrant_rails
Doc2Vec for theses – word2vec (Andromeda)
- https://mitlibraries.github.io/ml2s/ (MIT Libraries Machine Learning Studio - fun for all!)
- https://github.com/MITLibraries/mundaneum (code for the neural net that reads the theses)
- https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/ (the library that handles the actual neural net parts)
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781 (the paper that lays forth the word2vec strategy)
Topic Modeling DSpace Abstracts (Osman)
User Testing is Good (Darcy)

Codex Hackathon: PubLibData(Matt)
- http://codexhackathon.com/
- https://github.com/matt-bernhardt/publibdata_ui
Libraries Style Guide(Frances)
- https://github.com/frrrances/mitlib-style
Data Rescue Boston(Helen)
- https://datarescue-boston.github.io/