Islandora Camp is visiting London May 7 - 9th, 2014! Hosted by King's College London with sponsorship from the Freshwater Biological Association, this event marks our second time in Europe and our first in Great Britain.
If you have any questions about the UK Camp, please contact us.
Islandora Camp UK is only a couple of weeks away! Seats are still available, including single day rates for those who cannot attend the full event.
For those who are attending, we have a new list of restaurant recommendations near camp for your lunch and dinner pleasure and we are very pleased to show off your camp t-shirt (designed by camp instructor Kirsta Stapelfeldt), which will be waiting for you in London:
Due to community interest in particular sessions of our Islandora Camp in the UK and a continued availability of seats, we are opening up single day registration. Each of the three days of Islandora Camp offers a different focus. You can check the full schedule for exact details, or the summary below:
Introductory sessions and a broad overview of the current status of the Islandora project, stack, and future plans. A good day for anyone new to Islandora or looking to get an overview of the latest tools and tricks coming down the pipe.
Thursday is a full day of workshops/tutorials where you can get your hands on Islandora and gain some practical experience, either via the user interface (admins) or by digging into the underlying code (devs). Admins will configure and populate a new Islandora site and Devs will build a custom Islandora module.
Friday features a close look at many of the tools available for Islandora and sessions from the Islandora community. Topics cover areas such as: TEI and critical editions in Islandora, displaying metadata with the new Solr Metadata module, Islandora Scholar for institutional repositories, and how to get stats from your repo.
One of the features of the last few Islandora Camps is the camp t-shirt given to all attendees. Every camp has its own logo. For the past few camps we have reached out to our attendees to design that logo, and we are doing it again for the UK. We want to give a free registration and a couple of extra t-shirts to the iCampUK attendee who comes up with the coolest logo for iCampUK's t-shirts.
Entries will be put up on the website for voting by camp attendees and a winner will be selected and announced March 17, 2014.
Here are the details to enter:
Thank you and good luck!
We are very pleased to announce the opening of registration for our next two Islandora Camps: iCampUK in London England, May 7 - 9th and iCampGTA in Scarborough, Ontario from August 6 - 8th. The early bird discount for the UK will be available until March 1st and for the GTA it's available until April 1st, so get in early if you want to save a little on your registration. Seating is limited to 50 attendees per event.
We are also welcoming sessions proposals for both events. A t-shirt logo design contest for a free registration to each event is coming soon, so stay tuned!
Having just wrapped up a two-month spree of Islandora Camps in the US (two camps is a spree, right?), Islandora has set its sights across the Atlantic and has officially opened up registration for our next camp: Islandora Camp UK 2014, to be held on the campus of King's College London with sponsorship from the Freshwater Biological Association (and seriously, a big thank-you to our sponsors for making this one possible).
Camp will take place over three days: Days One and Three will be filled with regular sessions about what's new in Islandora and the Islandora Community. Day Two will be a full day, hands-on workshop where you can either build and configure a new Islandora site (Admin Track) or learn how to build a custom Islandora module (Developers Track). We have a great team of instructors ready to lead these workshops:
Admin Track:
Kirsta Stapelfeldt, once the Repository Manager of the Islandora Project, Kirsta is now the Digital Scholarship Unit Coordinator and the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is also an active member of the Roadmap Committee, a frequent guest-blogger on this site, and your maven of all things Islandora admin-interface.
Donald Moses is the Digitization Initiatives & Systems Librarian at UPEI, a printer of 3D objects, and a Formbuilder guru. Ask him about microservices.
Developer Track:
Alan Stanley is a programmer with discoverygarden Inc. Alan's past exploits include being the Lead Programmer for the Islandora Project, running a bike shop, and being an honest-to-goodness blacksmith. Ask him about kayaking. Or cooking. Or running. Really, just ask Alan anything, he probably has a story.
Nick Ruest is the Digital Assets Librarian at York University. He is also a member of the Islandora Roadmap Committee, a prolific committer and contributor of new modules to the community, and the first Islandora contributor to get their face in little pink hearts. Nick blogs at ruebot.net.
These four fine people will also be giving regular sessions, but we want to hear your voices at Islandora Camp UK as well. Our Call for Proposals is open until March 15th. We hope to see you in London!
