→rdfs:comment→"Generated by OpenOrg Grinder using the programme.xsl by Christopher Gutteridge. See http://wiki.openorg.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php/OpenOrg_Grinder. Generated at 2011-06-20T16:30:09+01:00"
→dct:description→"Picture This! is a one-day workshop taking place at Dev8D+ on 15 February 2011 and run jointly by the Metadata Forum and the Application Profiles Support project. The workshop will bring together developers and non-technical practitioners to explore the issues around image-based metadata. Starting with a programme of lightning talks where participants can share experiences, explain problems and pitch ideas, the day will focus on providing participants with practical solutions to image metadata problems. The workshop offers a unique opportunity for participants from a technical and non-technical background to work together to find ways to improve the delivery of services dealing with images. The event requires no previous experience, just an interest in metadata and images and a willingness to explore working together."
→dct:description→"DevCSI Challenge - Take all our video, twiter, blog, hash tag (#devcsi, #dev8d, #jiscri) content and create a spectacular navigable / browsable showcase / dynamically updated visualization of our content!"
→dct:description→"2 minute summary of Elsevier SciVerse Challenge. SciVerse is an OpenSocial platform with applications for ScienceDirect, Scopus and Hub, reaching 15 million researchers with 25% of the world's scientific publications, more than 10 million articles, 2500 journals. Applications on SciVerse appear alongside full-text articles and search results, and interact with content and open APIs and open data on the web. Developers can write applications using JavaScript, JSON, XML and REST APIs to advance search and discovery in science.Will be followed by a longer lightning talk straight afterwards."
→dct:description→"1 minute summary of Molly Project Challenge. Prize for the most significant/useful/novel contribution to the Molly Project to the end of Dev8D.The Molly Project is an open source framework designed to help HE institutions deploy mobile web services quickly, it was a spin-off from Mobile Oxford (http://m.ox.ac.uk) and we're keen to get more[nl] people deploying it and contributing to it. Some of the ways to get involved are listed below, but to start with please do join the developer mailing list or IRC channel and get talking to the others in the community. Will be followed by a longer lightning talk straight afterwards."
→dct:title→"Programme Information Management System (PIMS)"
→rdfs:label→"Programme Information Management System (PIMS)"
→dct:description→"1 minute summary of Programme Information Management System (PIMS) Challenge. JISC has mobile Programme Managers, but no mobile programme data. A £50 Amazon voucher, plus coverage in JISC Inform, will be awarded for the best mobile application that uses JISC's API to its 'Programme Information Management System' (PIMS). Prize funded by SoftMuse Ltd.[nl] For more information about how to access the APIs, please see:[nl] http://misc.jisc.ac.uk/pims/api/documentation/documentation.html. Will be followed by a longer lightning talk straight afterwards."
→dct:description→"1 minute summary of Picture This Challenge.We’re offering a Picture This Developer Challenge that will run throughout Dev8D - 16th-17th Feb with first prize of £50 Amazon voucher and second prize of £25 Amazon voucher. - Tokens to swap for exciting, enticing mystery prizes throughout the day and night of 16th Feb - Rewards for your solutions from grateful practitioners - Free lunch - Our undying respect and devotion.Will be followed by a longer lightning talk straight afterwards."
→dct:description→"1 minute summary of Open Bibliographic Data Challenge. What can you do with open access to data? What great ideas do you have for utilising open access to bibliographic catalogues? Or what example prototypes can you come up with in a month? We want to find out![nl] [nl] * 2 x £50 prizes for great ideas using bibliographic data[nl] * 2 x £500 prizes for building prototype apps using open bibliographic data[nl] [nl] For more information, please visit http://openbiblio.net/challenge/. Will be followed by a longer lightning talk straight afterwards."
→dct:description→"1 minute summary of Enabling Integrated Learning Environments (EILE) Challenge. To build a menu linking Full LTI provider to work with our Moodle consumer hosted on http://code.google.com/p/eile (code will be going up shortly). Entrants should look at our wordpress implementation for reference.[nl] First prize: £200 Amazon voucher[nl] Second prize: £100 Amazon voucher[nl] Third prize: £50 Amazon voucherGiven by video."
→dct:title→"Programme Information Management System (PIMS)"
→rdfs:label→"Programme Information Management System (PIMS)"
→dct:description→"Lighting␣␣talk on Programme Information Management System (PIMS) Challenge. An API has recently been developed opening up JISCs data on the programmes and projects it runs.␣␣This talk will go over some of the basics of the API and set a challenge to delegates develop something␣␣usefully and creatively."
→dct:description→"MyMobileBristol is an exciting collaboration between the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council that intends to facilitate communities of developers, data providers, policy makers and user groups to promote the development and deployment of innovative technologies."
→dct:title→"Open Planets.Digital Preservation & Format Identification"
→rdfs:label→"Open Planets.Digital Preservation & Format Identification"
→dct:description→"Lighting talk on Open Planets Challenge. Tools for digital preservation and the importance of Format identification and a community taking care of the integrity of the information for format identification"
→dct:description→"Lighting␣␣talk on Molly Project. The Molly Project is an open source (AFLv3) mobile framework that allows institutions to quickly develop mobile web services which target a wide range of devices."
→dct:description→"During the summer of 2010, the Conker Tree Science project engaged with members of the public across the UK by appealing for geo and photographic evidence of the spread of the horse chestnut leaf-mining moth. The JISC funded "Nature Locator" project will help the researchers by creating mobile applications that provide geo-tagged photographs, and visualisation tools to facilitate crowd-sourced verification of the data submitted during 2011."
→dct:title→"All your bases belong to us: L10N & L18N @ Dev8D"
→rdfs:label→"All your bases belong to us: L10N & L18N @ Dev8D"
→dct:description→"Developing internationally successful software goes beyond translating UI text and changing formats and timezones. This lightning talk will explore how software development as a process affects localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n), and what kind of issues should be expected."
→dct:description→"A lightning introduction to using␣␣CKAN and datapkg to get, use and share data. There will be a panel session on linked and open data where delegates can ask further questions."
→dct:title→"What developers who don't believe the hype actually need to know about RDF."
→rdfs:label→"What developers who don't believe the hype actually need to know about RDF."
→dct:description→"What developers who don't believe the hype actually need to know about RDF. There will be a panel session on linked data where delegates can ask further questions."
→dct:title→"What makes Dexy so Sexy for creating beautiful code documentation?"
→rdfs:label→"What makes Dexy so Sexy for creating beautiful code documentation?"
→dct:description→"Maybe the reason programmers don't write enough documentation is that the[nl] tools are awful. Wikis and blogging tools are great when you are using them[nl] for the type of writing they are intended for, but for documentation where[nl] you need to mix programming languages with the natural kind, they really[nl] aren't suitable. As a result, documenting code is usually a frustrating[nl] process that doesn't have the fun of writing code nor the satisfaction of[nl] writing prose. With Dexy, the integration of code and prose happens[nl] seamlessly and painlessly, so you can hack example scripts together and[nl] then write explanations using your favourite tools for each task and[nl] without ever losing your sense of flow. Dexy's literate approach means that[nl] it's easy to maintain your documentation over time, and its powerful and[nl] customizable filter system gives you tremendous control over how you[nl] present your code. Dexy also makes it easy to re-use your examples, for[nl] productivity as well as consistency across multiple types of documentation.[nl] Dexy works beautifully with version control systems and your favourite[nl] command line tools, and is a great, unobtrusive addition to any[nl] documentation or computational research workflow.[nl] ."
→dct:title→"LUCERO: Linked data at the Open University"
→rdfs:label→"LUCERO: Linked data at the Open University"
→dct:description→"The Lucero project at the OU is producing open linked data. There will be a talk about the data, the process and the challenges from a Linked Data novice perspective. There will be a panel session on linked and open data where delegates can ask further questions."
→dct:description→"How to use the Archives Hub's APIs to locate unique research resources within archives held at nearly 200 UK institutions.There will be a panel session on linked data where delegates can ask further questions."
→dct:description→"The Locah project is making records from the Archives Hub service and Copac service available as Linked Data. The Archives Hub is an aggregation of archival metadata from repositories across the UK; Copac provides access to the merged library catalogues of libraries throughout the UK, including all national libraries. In each case the aim is to provide Linked Data according to the principles set out by Tim Berners-Lee, so that we make our data interconnected with other data and contribute to the growth of the Semantic Web.[nl] [nl] The talk will touch on data modelling, the selection of vocabularies and the design of URI patterns. It will look at the practical realities of how we are turning the Archives Hub EAD data and Copac MODS data into RDF XML, and then loading it into triple stores. The talk will conclude with a look at some of the main opportunities and barriers to the creation and use of Linked Data. There will be a panel session on linked data where delegates can ask further questions."
→dct:title→"Business Process Modelling and The Decision Model"
→rdfs:label→"Business Process Modelling and The Decision Model"
→dct:description→"Why extracting business logic (rules) from BPM process models and modelling them as separate Decision Models significantly reduces the complexity of process models and improves business decisions.(Keywords BPMN 2.0, Activiti, KPI Decision Model, Drools)"
→dct:title→"The Dirty Hardware Hacker; Building on a little knowledge"
→rdfs:label→"The Dirty Hardware Hacker; Building on a little knowledge"
→dct:description→"Thanks to devices like the Kinect, the interest in 'the dirty hack' within the community has steadily risen. This talk contributes to the idea that software/hardware can be far more creative when used out of purpose. There will be several hardware hacking projects in the project zone you can get involved with."
→dct:title→"If you can't code, how do you control a robot?"
→rdfs:label→"If you can't code, how do you control a robot?"
→dct:description→"I was recently fascinated to find out that people who do cool stuff with robots use very simple languages and concepts to do really complex things. There will be several hardware hacking projects in the project zone you can get involved with."
→dct:title→"Commercial products, sometimes more open than you'd think."
→rdfs:label→"Commercial products, sometimes more open than you'd think."
→dct:description→"Many schools in the UK use Blackboard's VLE software - just want to make sure everyone is informed of new (and significant) progress in regards to APIs, openness, and open standards."
→dct:title→"Your Educational Tool Projects, Open Educational Standards, and Code Maintenance/Sustainability"
→rdfs:label→"Your Educational Tool Projects, Open Educational Standards, and Code Maintenance/Sustainability"
→dct:description→"Over the past year, Blackboard has become much more open and compliant with educational standards. Hear updates on Blackboard’s commitments to these open standards and stories about how Blackboard has used their plugin framework to customize institutional teaching and learning experiences – including an anecdote of a Blackboard learning tool plugin developed 7 years ago that required no code updates in over 75 maintenance releases."
→dct:title→"Sometimes I just want to count things"
→rdfs:label→"Sometimes I just want to count things"
→dct:description→"Current APIs and protocols make it difficult to get simple statistics on database/repository size and growth, so how can it be made easier?"
→dct:description→"Lightning talk to encourage people to get into using SVG for browser based user interfaces.[nl] The reason it is interesting is Internet Explorer 9 (later this year) will finally support SVG, and Firefox 4 has *much* better SVG support; Google Chrome is good, and Opera 11 is especially good already."
→dct:title→"The Dirty Hardware Hacker; Building on a little knowledge"
→rdfs:label→"The Dirty Hardware Hacker; Building on a little knowledge"
→dct:description→"Thanks to devices like the Kinect, the interest in 'the dirty hack' within the community has steadily risen. This talk contributes to the idea that software/hardware can be far more creative when used out of purpose. There will be several hardware hacking projects in the project zone you can get involved with."
→dct:title→"If you can't code, how do you control a robot?"
→rdfs:label→"If you can't code, how do you control a robot?"
→dct:description→"I was recently fascinated to find out that people who do cool stuff with robots use very simple languages and concepts to do really complex things. There will be several hardware hacking projects in the project zone you can get involved with."
→dct:description→"Putting a Rails frontend on an existing JavaEE application.[nl] Would be best as a quick coding demo. Show an existing app working, then put a quick interface on it with Ruby. I have only just started developing with this concept so it might come to nothing!"
→dct:title→"Improving software development efficacy by leveraging social idiosyncrasies"
→rdfs:label→"Improving software development efficacy by leveraging social idiosyncrasies"
→dct:description→"If the HEI / research sector is not a commercial sector, and it suffers the disadvantages of being a public sector, are there not also benefits to being in such a sector - for instance, a public sector seems like the ideal place for a developer community, and open source, knowledge and data should be highly suitable in a less commercial environment"
→dct:description→"This session is a report back from a workshop I ran last year at Dev8D.[nl] [nl] The core activity was focused on creating "creatures" which can solve an arbitrary (randomly generated) maze with varying degrees of success. The code for the experiment was provided, written in Python, and participants were encouraged to think about how to make best use of this code to achieve the following goals:[nl] [nl] ␣␣␣␣* Produce creatures which are capable of navigating the maze from start to finish (survival)[nl] ␣␣␣␣* Produce creatures which are capable of finishing the maze faster than other creatures (specialisation)[nl] ␣␣␣␣* Produce creatures which can solve a broad variety of different mazes (generalisation)"
→dct:description→"A quick intro to GetTheData.org, a new Q and A site for all your data related questions and answers: if you can't get the data you need, or can't get your head round it once you've found it, try GetTheData..."
→dct:title→"Pipe2py: compiling Yahoo pipes to Python"
→rdfs:label→"Pipe2py: compiling Yahoo pipes to Python"
→dct:description→"By using Yahoo Pipes as a rapid prototyping tool for feed orientated processing the workshop will show this work can be complied in to python using Pipe2py, see https://github.com/ggaughan/pipe2py"
→dct:title→"Open Educational Hack Day - 31 March and 1 April 2011"
→rdfs:label→"Open Educational Hack Day - 31 March and 1 April 2011"
→dct:description→"We are inviting developers and 'users' to work together in a unique event where teams of people will work with OER resources, systems and services. Events like these are sometimes called 'Hack Days'. We will be encouraging developers to talk about the systems and resources they have created and how they can be discovered, disaggregated, presented, remixed and tracked. We hope these teams will come up with some imaginative and innovative ideas. The event will culminate in a series of presentations from the teams about the work they have carried out."
→dct:description→"SPARQL 1.1 -- storing and querying webby data TNG. There will be a panel session on linked data where delegates can ask further questions."
→dct:title→"Developing our Future Technology Entrepreneurs - Helping School Children Make their Ideas Work"
→dct:description→"I have been working as a "STEM Ambassador, as a volunteer in schools for several years, developing small, low-cost projects for␣␣after schools technology clubs. I've been using Arduino as a technology, and robotics and electronics gizmo's as a focus.[nl] [nl] One of my students won one of the UK Junior Micromouse (robot) championships summer 2010, and again in November. He observed that "I never thought I could buy bits of electronics for a couple of pounds, put them together, write programs to control what I make, and create things that work, from my own ideas".[nl] [nl] I am looking for a few volunteers to help develop projects, and test them out in a range of schools, or with their own children."
→dct:description→"Landmap is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and is a Mimas hosted service. Providing high quality spatial datasets is the main aim of the service enhanced with a diverse range of learning materials to support their use."
→dct:description→"Learning about the power of High Performance Computing and how it differs from standard computing. This session will give people interested and relatively new to HPC (High Performance Computing) an opportunity to get some of their questions answered about what HPC is, how it is different to standard and popular computing, what can be done with HPC facilities, where they are typically used, how do you get started etc."
→dct:title→"Why do developers find documentation painful and what can be done to[nl] improve matters?"
→dct:description→"Is there a topic you really want to ask experts about? Let us know as soon as possible and we'll try and pull together experts on topics that you'd like to discuss. Please send us your questions to @ukoln.ac.uk or speak to the events organisers."
→dct:title→"Front End Issues: The art of the possible"
→dct:description→"Ask 'Big John' Gallant (http://www.postioniseverything.net) what can be done about all those annoying problems that always seem to crop up on every front end development job. IE giving you nightmares? Just can't wrap your head around stacking contexts? Experiencing difficulties making your jQuery play nice [nl] with your CSS? Let Big John have a go!"
→dct:description→"An implementation of the Linked Data API[nl] allows a SPARQL endpoint to be fronted with REST-style URIs. I'll[nl] give a brief summary of the LDA and then show how to get started[nl] using the Epimorphics implementation."
→rdfs:label→"Words and rules. Word magic with formal and informal metadata extraction (1100-1130)"
→dct:title→"Words and rules - scripting word magic."
→dct:description→"It is a fact universally acknowledged that even though natural language processing is a pain in the neck, it's also a very useful way of making sense out of large amounts of data. We'll talk about a few basic tools for data processing tasks like formal and informal metadata extraction, search engine development and sentiment analysis."
→dct:title→"Why we need an open registry of academic developers."
→dct:description→"Why we need an open academic developer register. How we should go about building one. Bring your ideas and opinions to this, see blog posting http://benosteen.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/on-an-open-registry-of-academic-developers/"
→dct:description→"This can either be a repeat of the previous session or the possibility to do a more advanced session. I will take a show of hands and then take it from there."
→rdfs:label→"Get the Data Flowing (Lunch 13:15 - 13:45)"
→dct:title→"Get the data flowing: a hands on guide"
→dct:description→"This workshop will demonstrate various techniques for building rapid prototypes capable of working with and visualising open public data. Building on the idea of feed oriented processing, we'll work through a series of practical examples, including showing how turn CSV files into queryable databases using Google Spreadsheets, how to visualise your social network using Gephi, and how to use Scraperwiki for scraping data from third party sites. We might also get to look at one or two tools for tidying up data along the way."
→dct:title→"CSS of the Third Kind: Getting IE to do Fancy Stuff"
→dct:description→"Join Big John to see what can be done about CSS 3 and IE. You know, roundings and dropshadows and gradients, all the cool CSS 3 stuff we've been lusting after. Plus more Q and A about front end␣␣issues in general. Ask Big John Gallant anything about CSS (via Skype from Phoenix, Arizona)"
→dct:description→"The session, even if fun, will be very intensive with lots of material to cover in a short time. To get the most out of the session, you are strongly advised to have a laptop with you, with Erlang installed."
→dct:description→"The session, even if fun, will be very intensive with lots of material to cover in a short time. To get the most out of the session, you are strongly advised to have a laptop with you, with Erlang installed."
→dct:title→"Root-finding Dojo: A beginner's introduction to functional programming with Clojure"
→dct:description→"Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ). It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection.[nl] [nl] Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs. See what I did last year http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/01/clojure-dojo-method-of-heron-of.html"
→dct:description→"Scala is a general purpose, practical, object-oriented/functional-hybrid programming language that runs on the JVM. It's type-safe and has a performance profile very similar to Java, but has the expressiveness of dynamic languages like Ruby and Python. Some Java users are treating it as a "power Java", some are using it as a scalable back-end for other applications (Twitter), some are using it as a half-way house between Java and Python/Ruby. In the workshop, we will look at some of the features of the language, learn the syntax and start using it to build something in a Coding Dojo.[nl] [nl] To participate, it is strongly recommended that you download a recent version of the Scala compiler/runtime - 2.7 or 2.8 branch (the version installed by apt-get on Ubuntu or Debian Sid/Squeeze is fine). Familiarity with Java is useful; I've included code sample comparisons to Java, C#, Python and Ruby. For the Coding Dojo, we will be using SciTE on a Linux machine."
→dct:title→"Getting your Educational Tools into the Hands of Faculty and Students"
→dct:description→"The institutional VLE is the most used web-based system on campus, just behind webmail. If your institution uses Blackboard’s VLE, learn how easy it is to get started with developing Blackboard plugins called “Building Blocks.” This session will walk you through how to build your first Blackboard plugin in under 10 minutes and move on to more advanced topics including how to use open standards to connect your existing teaching and learning tools (no matter which language they are written in) to the institutional VLE with minimal effort. This workshop spans over the lunch break between 12.30 - 13.30"
→dct:title→"OpenSocial Gadgets for Scientific Search – “Apps for Science” Challenge"
→dct:description→"This workshop will introduce OpenSocial for Science and you learn to create an app for scientific search. This workshop is also a great way to get you started with an app to compete in the Elsevier Challenge. With over 900 million users the OpenSocial platform is by far the biggest alternative to the Facebook platform for Social Networks. The next web not only uses social networks as its building blocks but also is based on pluggable apps like you download apps on your mobile phone to customize your personal needs.␣␣Developers build gadgets or apps using HTML5 and JavaScript. Apps access full-text articles, abstracts and citations and scientific web search results, and mashup with open APIs and open data from the web. SciVerse consists of ScienceDirect, Scopus and Hub and offers access to 10 million scientific articles, 40 million abstracts and 15 million researchers. SciVerse is the leading OpenSocial platform for scientific search and discovery."
→dct:description→"Introduction to Digital Preservation & Long term access[nl] [nl] CHALLENGE[nl] Innovation[nl] [nl] ISSUES[nl] - Storage[nl] - Long term access[nl] - Rendering [nl] - Formats and obsolescence[nl] [nl] SOLUTIONS[nl] - Migration[nl] - Emulation[nl] [nl] [nl] R&D PLANETS DIGITAL PRESERVATION [nl] - Plato Planning[nl] - Testbed[nl] - Planets Core Registry[nl] [nl] OPF, a community of practitioners and developers for long terms access solutions and practices[nl] [tab][tab][nl] WORKSHOP [nl] 1. [tab]Understanding the Stakeholder Perspective[nl] Functional Requirements[nl] Dutch National Archive,␣␣Maurice van den Dobbelsteen[nl] [nl] 2.[tab]Deployability of Applications[nl] [tab]System Requirements[nl] [tab]Open Planets Foundation, Bram van der Werf"
→dct:description→"The workshop will cover most of the core Arduino Language, with hands-on electronics mini-projects. Every 15 to 20 minutes, we'll build gizmo's which combine embedded control and modern electronics![nl] The Arduino Language covered in the workshop will include:[nl] Digital Input and Output and pin-control,[nl] Analogue Input and Output (using pseudo-analogue Pulse Width Modulation or PWM),[nl] time-based control (millisecond and microsecond), and[nl] Arduino to host 'serial' (USB) comms.[nl] You will need a PC or laptop. We will provide Arduino's, breadboard, electronics components and tools (see #Arduino Electronic Kits).[nl] All electronics will be "breadboarded" to get a rapid-prototype feel, and cover lots of ground in a couple of hours. You won't need to solder anything.[nl] We'll have 12 complete kits, and you can work in pairs. With both programming and electronics, pair-development is very effective to speed and understanding."
→dct:description→"The workshop is a repeat of the previous one. It will cover most of the core Arduino Language, with hands-on electronics mini-projects. Every 15 to 20 minutes, we'll build gizmo's which combine embedded control and modern electronics![nl] The Arduino Language covered in the workshop will include:[nl] Digital Input and Output and pin-control,[nl] Analogue Input and Output (using pseudo-analogue Pulse Width Modulation or PWM),[nl] time-based control (millisecond and microsecond), and[nl] Arduino to host 'serial' (USB) comms.[nl] You will need a PC or laptop. We will provide Arduino's, breadboard, electronics components and tools (see #Arduino Electronic Kits).[nl] All electronics will be "breadboarded" to get a rapid-prototype feel, and cover lots of ground in a couple of hours. You won't need to solder anything.[nl] We'll have 12 complete kits, and you can work in pairs. With both programming and electronics, pair-development is very effective to speed and understanding. Please note that there might be a shortened lunch brake."
→dct:description→"MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database. Written in C++, some MongoDB features:JSON-style documents with dynamic schemas offer simplicity and power, Index on any attribute,Mirror across LANs and WANs for scale and peace of mind, Scale horizontally without compromising functionality, Rich, document-based queries, Atomic modifiers for contention-free performance, [nl] Flexible aggregation and data processing, Store files of any size without complicating your stack."
→dct:description→"CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network) is open source data[nl] 'hub' software designed to make it easier to get, use and share data[nl] -- both within the academe and outside. CKAN forms the backend of[nl] data.gov.uk and there are over twenty instances of it worldwide,[nl] including the original community-based ckan.net.[nl] [nl] This workshop will show you how to get started with CKAN and use its[nl] plugin architecture to customize it to your datasets and workflow."
→dct:title→"An Introduction to RDF Rapid Development"
→dct:description→"Getting started with RDF and SPARQL queries.␣␣The session is aimed at developers[nl] with little prior experience of working with RDF, to help them to get quickly[nl] up-and-running with an RDF query service, and will involve hands-on installation[nl] of an RDF triple store and query engine on your own laptop, then submitting a[nl] few simple SPARQL queries using command line scripts.␣␣The software used will e[nl] Fuseki (from the Jena project) and Curl.[nl] [nl] To get the most out of this, have the following software installed on your laptop:[nl] * Java 1.6 - http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp[nl] * Curl - http://curl.haxx.se/download.html[nl] * Mercurial - http://mercurial.selenic.com/ - this will be used to pull sample[nl] data and queries from a Google Code repository.[nl] [nl] If time permits, I'll spend a little time on techniques for using SPARQL queries[nl] to do simple inference, and optimizing SPARQL query performance.[nl] [nl] Please note, this session is intended to be hands-on HOWTO, not a general[nl] introduction to RDF.␣␣The aim is to provide a few simple tools that can be used[nl] experimentally to support and reinforce "book learning" about RDF."
→rdfs:label→"Image Understanding For Computers (1500-1700)"
→dct:title→"Getting the computer to understand images"
→dct:description→"We take for granted that we can understand the world around us using[nl] our senses. But we have to use special techniques to allow computers[nl] to understand things like images in a useful way. OpenCV is a library[nl] of these techniques where most of the hard work is done for you - you[nl] just need to understand why you would use them.[nl] This workshop will take you through the basics of using OpenCV, and[nl] use the python bindings to take you through some examples of image[nl] capture, analysis, tracking and comparison to recognise items in[nl] images and to show simple face detection. Find me at least an hour[nl] before the session if you want help installing OpenCV with the python[nl] bindings."
→dct:title→"Documentation! Learning to love writing documentation, and making code a thing of beauty by using Dexy and other tools"
→dct:description→"The goal of this workshop is to get you up and running with Dexy. After[nl] this workshop you will be ready to start trying Dexy on your own projects,[nl] or as a tool for exploring/contributing to other open source projects.[nl] [nl] This is a hands-on workshop so you will need to bring a laptop running Mac[nl] or Linux, with Python 2.6 or 2.7 installed, and Dexy installed as per the[nl] instructions on http://dexy.it/install (make sure you install the 'common'[nl] extras). Dexy does run on Windows but this is relatively untested and many[nl] of the filters do not work, so if you are on a Windows laptop then please[nl] install a Linux virtual machine and install Python and Dexy on that.[nl] [nl] Please install the garlicsim and garlicsim_lib Python packages:[nl] easy_install garlicsim[nl] easy_install garlicsim_lib[nl] [nl] Please also install R http://r-project.org, and then within R run[nl] install.packages("rjson")"
→dct:description→"Participants will be taken through the testing of[nl] an insecure web application to deepen their understanding of real[nl] world web security issues. Please note this group may have a shorter lunch break."
→dct:description→"How to use Molly to develop for the mobile web.The Molly Project is an open source (AFLv3) mobile framework that allows institutions to quickly develop mobile web services which target a wide range of devices."
→rdfs:label→"Logic Electronics for Programmers (1400-1500)"
→dct:title→"Make a flip-flop circuit (for programmers who know nothing at all about electronics)"
→dct:description→"A flip-flop is a circuit which stays in a certain state until it receives a signal to change to the other state which it then stays until it gets a signal to change back. It stays in the state even after the signal has stopped. This is one of the fundamental building blocks of computers. This workshop will cover how to make and view the state of a NOR gate using a transistor and how to combine two NOR gates to make a basic flip flop. It should take about an hour for a logically minded person who's never done anything like this before. (If we get lots of signups people can work in groups of two)"
→dct:description→"Arduino Hacking Project - Blink Light Extravaganza. We'll use 8x8 LED displays to build a 'Time Square' message board, and attempt to use simple Infrared IR Communications to link Arduino's into an 'emergent' intelligent network. Plus several other blinky-light projects."
→dct:description→"New to Dev8D, feeling a bit overwhelmed. Sit here and friendly experienced Dev8Ders will try and help you make the most out of Dev8D"
→dct:description→"New to Dev8D, feeling a bit overwhelmed. Sit here and friendly experienced Dev8Ders will try and help you make the most out of Dev8D"
→dct:description→"Tips, tricks and quick wins. Record your tips and tricks here, share your wisdom and mistakes so that others benefit. Report back at the GURU sessions for tips and tricks."
→dct:description→"Tips, tricks and quick wins. Record your tips and tricks here, share your wisdom and mistakes so that others benefit. Report back at the GURU sessions for tips and tricks."
→dct:title→"Lunch on Wed 16 (Dev8D - Day 1). A 'Taste of Asia'"
→dct:description→"Lunch will be served in the Venue on the Ground Floor. Wednesday's menu will be 'Taste of Asia'. [nl] Thai␣␣Coconut Soup with Lemon Grass[nl] King Prawns in Filo Pastry with Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce[nl] Mini Vegetable Spring Rolls[nl] Onion Bahji with Raita[nl] Selection of Salads[nl] Thai Green Chicken Curry[nl] Indian Fish Curry␣␣[nl] Wok Stir - Fried Vegetables with Tofu[nl] Steamed Basmati Rice[nl] Singapore Noodles (vegetarian style)[nl] Exotic Fresh Fruit Salad[nl] Coconut and White Chocolate Drum with Pineapple[nl] If you have any ideas for projects, lightning talks or panel discussions please let the organisers know. Please use this time to also sign up for the other sessions as some places are limited."
→dct:description→"Please use this time to check-in to your accommodation if you are staying the night, otherwise you are free to hang around until 1930 for the evening meal."
→dct:description→"Food will be served in the Gallery, we will be playing music from the spotify play list, see: http://wiki.2011.dev8d.org/w/Music_Play_List, and you will also have an opportunity to request tracks as well. We suggest you bring games, ideas of games to the event. Food that will be served will be: Traditional Oak Smoked Scottish Salmon with Sour Cream, Lemon and Capers[nl] Selection of Mediterranean Bruschetta with Pesto [nl] Beer Battered Cod Fillets with Chips␣␣& Tartar Sauce[nl] Mushroom Stroganoff [nl] Lamb Balti with Minted Yoghurt and Steamed Basmati Rice[nl] Thai Style King Prawns with Sweet and Sour Sauce[nl] Calamari with Lemon and Garlic Mayonnaise[nl] Traditional Cumberland Sausage with Grain Mustard Sauce[nl] Home Made Vegetable Spring Rolls with Soy & Ginger Dip[nl] Selection of Mini Pastries, Desserts and Sweets[nl] English Cheese Board with Red onion Chutney, Grapes and Crackers"
→dct:title→"Lunch on Thu 17 (Dev8D - Day 2) - 'A Taste of Europe'"
→dct:description→"Lunch will be served in the Venue on the Ground Floor. Thursday's lunch will be 'Taste of Europe', see:Selection of Anti Pasti - to include cold meat, seafood and vegetables[nl] Rustic Bread Selection[nl] Mini Fish and Chips with Mushy Peas[nl] Selection of Salads[nl] Wild Mushroom Risotto[nl] Seared Salmon on a Ratatouille of Vegetables[nl] Penne Pasta Arabiatta[nl] Sausage and Mashed Potatoes with Onion Gravy [nl] Homemade Apple and Sultana Crumble and Custard[nl] Dark Chocolate Delice with Chantilly Cream[nl] If you have any ideas for projects, lightning talks or panel discussions please let the organisers know."