#c4l15 talk extras

These are links, background reading, and photo credits for my code4lib 2015 closing keynote “Architect for wanderlust: the web and open things”. Also, slides [PDF].

ETA: Here’s the talk video.

Links and ideas!!!

I mention a bunch of links in the talk and here they are so you can click on them. There’s also a bunch of ideas I mention, or allude to, or had in the back of my head, or wanted to put in this talk but couldn’t. Here you go. They fit into the talk in roughly this order.

This talk is under a CC BY-NC-SA license, except for third-party copyrighted content used here by permission.

• http://info.cern.ch/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web (Fun fact: the first web server in North America was built by Louise Addis, a librarian.)
• nerd camp: http://cty.jhu.edu/
• http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Sumana_Harihareswara_keynote
• http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_Keynote_by_Sumana_Harihareswara
• Kathy Sierra’s Icelandic pony photography: http://seriouspony.com/
• http://juliepagano.com/blog/2013/11/02/it-s-dangerous-to-go-alone-battling-the-invisible-monsters-in-tech/
• Category definition: George Lakoff’s Metaphors we Live By, http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/
• https://github.com/code4lib/antiharassment-policy
• Conduct toward strangers, and why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)
• “When you walk into a room, count”: http://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=610
• http://www.groundsforsculpture.org/
• http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2013/apr/10/anna-anthropy-twine-revolution
• Twine, in your browser
• CustomFit – a custom sweater pattern generator; I write code for them.
• http://partsandcrafts.org/
• http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/Top.html — They tried to provide a complete subject categorization of the web. Even in 1991, they knew they had failed.
• Homebrew

I learned to program from _why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby, and I think this sentence is the very moment it clicked: ‘You will be writing stories for a machine.’ Coding as creative act, as artwork. Not algorithms or math or business rules. That caught my attention, and that got me going.

Misty De Meo (quoted in my upcoming Library Technology Report, available April 2015 from ALA TechSource)


• intersectional librarycloud (plus my blog post on the hackathon)
• https://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/never-neutral-libraries-technology-and-inclusion/
• http://menus.nypl.org/
• @_badtaste_
• http://spacetime.nypl.org/
• @congressedits
• https://github.com/edsu/anon
• http://inkdroid.org/journal/2014/07/10/why-congressedits/
• http://inkdroid.org/journal/2014/12/03/an-invitation-to-study/

Let’s put our privilege as members of this academic community to work. Is there something to learn in these 13 million tweets, these letters from ordinary people. The thousands of videos and photographs, and links to stories? I think there is.

• http://wiki.code4lib.org/Zoia_or_the_Code4Lib_IRC_bot

Photo credits!!!

LaSells Stewart Center at OSU
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALaSells_Stewart_Center_plaza.JPG
Public domain
M.O. Stevens

meh cookie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rickharris/430890004
CC BY-SA
Rick Harris / rickharris

ikea
https://www.flickr.com/photos/seanhobson/4380105315
CC BY
sean hobson / seanhobson

408 status cat
https://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/6508023179/in/set-72157628409467125
CC BY
Tomomi / girliemac

Arab spring
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2011_Egyptian_protests_Facebook_%26_jan25_card.jpg#mediaviewer/File:2011_Egyptian_protests_Facebook_%26_jan25_card.jpg
CC BY-SA 3.0
Essam Sharaf

code4lib montage
https://www.flickr.com/photos/schwartzray/4393750460/in/pool-code4lib
all rights reserved, used by permission
Ray Schwartz / schwartzray

https://www.flickr.com/photos/schwartzray/6879387763
all rights reserved, used by permission
Ray Schwartz / schwartzray

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigdpix/4389144718
all rights reserved, used by permission
Declan Fleming / bigdpix

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigdpix/3316712413/in/pool-code4lib
all rights reserved, used by permission
Declan Fleming / bigdpix

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ranti/2306369702
CC BY-NC-SA, by permission
Ranti Junus / ranti

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ladyartemis/14162158682
CC BY-NC-ND, by permission
Cynthia Ng / ladyartemis

the Duck
all rights reserved, used by permission
Max Wang

story sculpture
https://www.flickr.com/photos/schizoform/3538077084
CC BY
schizoform / schizoform

passing of the duck
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34473680@N05/3834790225
all rights reserved, used by permission
beelockwood / beelockwood

icelandic pony
https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinet/3076135581
CC BY-SA
Thomas Quine / quinet

selfie in a fractured mirror
https://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/2910146045/
CC BY
David Goehring / CarbonNYC

Parts and Crafts
https://www.flickr.com/photos/36839337@N02/15837096400
all rights reserved, used by permission
partsandcrafts / partsandcrafts

Parts & Crafts shelves
https://www.flickr.com/photos/publiclaboratory/7623679692
CC BY
publiclaboratory / publiclaboratory

Thanks for listening.