Thanks to all who submitted presentation-proposals for the 2009 code4lib conference. This year, like last, we'll have 22 presentations. Below is an alphabetical list of the 22 presentations which got the most votes; we'll post a schedule shortly. To those attending the conference who want to share interesting work and thoughts, know that lightning-talks (short, five-minute talks) are a valued core part of this conference. Sign-up sheets for these will be available at the conference. - A modern open webservice-based GIS infrastructure - A new frontier - the Open Library Environment (OLE) - A New Platform for Open Data - Introducing ‡biblios.net Web Services - Blacklight as a unified discovery platform - Complete faceting - djatoka for dummies - Extending biblios, the open source web based metadata editor - Freebasing for Fun and Enhancement - FreeCite - An Open Source Free-Text Citation Parser - Great facets, like your relevance, but can I have links to Amazon and Google Book Search? - How Anarchivist Got His Groove Back 2: DVCS, Archival Description, and Workflow Integration - LibX 2.0 - Like a can opener for your data silo: simple access through AtomPub and Jangle - LuSql: (Quickly and easily) Getting your data from your DBMS into Lucene - Open Up Your Repository With a SWORD! - RESTafarian-ism at the NLA - The Dashboard Initiative - The Open Platform Strategy: what it means for library developers - The Rising Sun: Making the most of Solr power - Visualizing Media Archives: A Case Study - What We Talk About When We Talk About FRBR - Why libraries should embrace Linked Data More conference info coming soon. -Birkin --- Birkin James Diana Programmer, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library [log in to unmask]