code4lib 2008

The 2008 code4lib conference will place Feb. 25-28 at Embassy Suites in downtown Portland, Oregon.

See discussion at conference home page and Google Groups and on code4lib IRC (cf. FAQs)

Some proposals of particular interest: Andrew Nagy on VuFind; Jon Phipps on the NSDL Metadata Registry; Winona Salesky and Michael Park on "XForms for Metadata creation," Terry Reese and Emily Lynema on DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force API, Aaron Swartz on the Open Library Project, Rob Styles on RDF extraction of MARC data, Gabriel Farrell on Solr-powered Helios, Casey Durfee on MARCThing


Registration is $125. Hotel rooms are $150 per night, and include full breakfast and "free happy-hour." There's a wiki page with suggested Portland restaurants/hang-outs.

Here's the basic conference schedule:

Monday, February 25 - Preconference Day
Tuesday, February 26 - Conference full day
Wednesday, February 27 - Conference full day
Thursday, February 28 - Conference half day

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