Camp Program - VALA - Libraries / Technology and the Future //

Wednesday 10 April

Thursday 11 April

TIME	WHAT'S ON?
9.45-10.30	ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION Level 5 Foyer Coffee and light refreshments Collect your TC19 Tshirts and stickers (supplied by AARNet) Tech Check – Need to check your tech? Meet with the support crew from TC19, AARNet and William Angliss Room: Level 5 Docklands
10.30-10.40	WELCOME Level 5 Auditorium Welcome, housekeeping and introductions - Hugh Rundle, TC19 Camp Leader Welcome To Melbourne - Cr Jackie Watts, City of Melbourne
10.40-12.00	SHORT TALKS Level 5 Auditorium 20-minute Short Talks followed by 20-minutes Panel Q&A. MC - Ebe Kartus
10.40	T#1: Historical Maps, Art and GeoData - Speaker: Katrina Grant, Australian National University Geodata’s just used in the sciences, right? Think again! Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used to bring new perspectives on what it is to be human.
11.00	T#2: APIs - Speaker: Tim Sherratt, University of Canberra More and more library software are using APIs. What are APIs? How do they talk between your systems and the library vendors system? How could you use them? Are they the solution to some of your library system issues?
11.20	T#3: Regex - Speaker: Melissa Parent, State Library of Victoria Regex is a fancy way to match patterns and find and replace. How can Regex be used to make changes to bibliographic records that are not possible in our current systems?
11.40	Panel Q&A Facilitated by: Camp Leader
12.00-13.30	LUNCH OUT (YOUR CHOICE) - STRETCH YOUR LEGS, LOAD UP ON CAFFEINE, NETWORK See our list of recommended local eateries
13.00-13.30	Tech Check – Need to check your tech? Meet with the support crew from TC19 and AARNet Room: Level 5 Docklands
	WORKSHOPS 3-hour Workshops in 3 streams, including 60-minutes applying new skills to a project
13.30-16.30	WORKSHOP STREAM – THE NAVIGATOR Room: Level 5 Docklands 5.18	WORKSHOP STREAM – THE STORYTELLER Room: Level 5 Flagstaff 5.26 & 5.27	WORKSHOP STREAM – THE ENGINEER Room: Level 5 Auditorium
13.30-15.30	W#1: Introduction to the Command Line Presented by: Hugh Rundle (CAVAL)	W#2: Cleaning Data with Open Refine Presented by: Alissa McCulloch	W#3: Introduction to programming with Python Presented by: Clinton Roy
13.30	Learn how to control your computer from the command line, why it’s important, and what those ‘helpful’ Stack Overflow people mean when they say you “simply need to make sure /usr/bin is in your $PATH and you won’t need to sudo”.	Do you dream of fixing decades of data inconsistencies in a single afternoon? Need to bulk-change that offensive subject heading? It can be done! Learn how Open Refine can help you clean your data quickly and easily without giving you a migraine.	Python is a versatile and popular programming language. It’s used in web applications, scientific computing and even in some library systems. In this session we’ll be using Python to give a gentle introduction to programming.
15.30	Work on a project using the skills just learned	Work on a project using the skills just learned	Work on a project using the skills just learned
16.30-17.30	HAPPY HOUR Level 5 Foyer Cash Bar Join Camp Leaders and colleagues for Happy Hour. Cheese, biscuits and fruit platters provided.

TIME	WHAT'S ON?
7.45-8.15	BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS Level 5 Foyer Breakfast Buffet – muesli, pastries, homemade breakfast pies, plenty of coffee
8.15-8.20	WELCOME BACK Level 5 Auditorium
8.20-9.40	SHORT TALKS Level 5 Auditorium 20-minute Short Talks followed by 20-minutes Panel Q&A. MC - Alissa McCulloch
8.20	T#4: Open Data - Speaker: Fiona Tweedie, University of Melbourne Everyone seems to be talking about ‘Open Data’ lately, but what exactly is it, how can you use it, and why would your organisation publish it?
8.40	T#5: Data Skills for GLAM: Take Tinker for a Spin! - Speaker: Tyne Sumner, University of Melbourne and Alexis Tindall, ARDC Want to hear about the latest developments in the world of digital Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia? Take a look at the nationally-supported HASS Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory (DEVL) project and Tinker, an easy-to-use online ecosystem of data, tools and services.
9.00	T#6: Digital Preservation as a Service - Speaker: Adam Bell, AARNet Exploring AARNet’s pilot project for long term preservation built on AARNet’s data movement, storage and access capabilities.
9.20	Panel Q&A Facilitated by: Camp Leader
9.40-10.00	COFFEE BREAK Level 5 Foyer Coffee, juice, light refreshments
	WORKSHOPS 3-hour Workshops in 3 streams, including 60-minutes applying new skills to a project
10.00-13.00	WORKSHOP STREAM – THE NAVIGATOR Room: Level 5 Docklands 5.18 & 5.19	WORKSHOP STREAM – THE STORYTELLER Room: Level 5 Auditorium	WORKSHOP STREAM – THE ENGINEER Room: Level 5 Flagstaff 5.26 & 5.27
	W#4: Gaining Insights with SQL Presented by: Donna Benjamin and Arjen Lentz (Catalyst IT)	W#5: Telling stories with data Presented by: Justin Kelly and Thomas Rutter (Swinburne)	W#6: Make a gadgety…thing? Presented by: Andrew Kelly (City of Armadale)
10.00-12.00	Save time and impress your boss with what you can find inside your library database. Structured Query Language (SQL) is used to create, update and of course query databases in a huge number of applications, including most library management systems. This session will provide a brief overview of structured databases, and an introduction to creating reports using SQL.	Once your data is clean how can you tell stories with it? What is the data trying to tell you? Learn how you can use Tableau to visualise your data whether for managers or for that important report. Tableau is one of a number of visualisation tools that can be used to make sense of your data once you become a proficient storyteller.	Coding is cool - but how much cooler would it be if you could bring the virtual into reality? The Arduino microcontroller took the world of electronics by storm with its low cost and user-friendliness. We’ll show you what this little thing is capable of.
12.00	Work on a project using the skills just learned	Work on a project using the skills just learned	Work on a project using the skills just learned
13.00-14.00	LUNCH IN (PAPER BAG) – NETWORKING Level 5 Foyer, seating in Auditorium Sandwiches, whole fruit, juice, coffee
14.00-15.30	SHORT TALKS Level 5 Auditorium 20-minute Short Talks followed by 30-minutes Panel Q&A. MC - Hugh Rundle
14.00	T#7: Automated testing scripts with Kantu - Speaker: Elizabeth Robertson, University of Western Australia How often do you need to do a simple, repetitive, but time-consuming task on a computer? Macros can help automate repetitive tasks and free up time to analyse and explore data. This short talk explores the use of Kantu, an open-source browser extension available for Chrome and Firefox, to automate tasks and testing.
14.20	T#8: Pandoc - Speaker: Alec Clews, PaperCut Software If you’ve ever needed to convert a document from one format to another, you’re going to love Pandoc. This short talk will introduce the free Pandoc utility and demonstrate how you can use it in GLAM work.
14.40	T#9: Writing feature requests & bug reports - Speaker: Amelia Rowe, RMIT How to write a clear and logical enhancement request so that people are likely to vote for it. How to write up a logical bug report for a vendor so they can understand what the issue is.
15.00	Panel Q&A Facilitated by: Camp Leader
15.30-1600	WRAP UP Level 5 Auditorium Facilitated by: Camp Leaders What we’ve learned from Tech Camp \| What we can learn from you – feedback time