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Excellent, Masao!  Thanks for sharing this. :)

It's exciting to see all the regional code4lib interest; it just goes
to show that hatred of the MARC format, and similar formats, is truly
international.

-Mike



On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 04:08, Masao Takaku <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a library engineer in Japan. I attended this year's Code4Lib
> conference. The conference was fascinating at all and I really enjoyed
> it, though that was my first time code4lib experience.
>
> And then, yesterday we organized a workshop on "Trip reports for
> Code4Lib 2010, and more" at Tokyo[1]. The purpose of our workshop was
> intended to share our experience in the #c4l10 conference, and to
> advance Japanese library community in such code4lib things.
>
> The workshop ended up successfully. Three presentations and five
> lightning talks were made. There are 30 attendees in total from
> developers for library apps on web&mobile, as well as
> librarians. Additionally the workshop was streamed online at Ustream,
> which was viewed by at least 30 people, and got conversations on
> Twitter (#c4l10jp & #c4libjp). Archived recording videos are available
> on Ustream.tv[2].
>
> There was also a proposal from Makoto Okamoto (@arg) for "Code4Lib
> JAPAN Conference" in November, in conjunction with annual Library Fair
> in Yokohama. And he also proposed "Code4Lib JAPAN Camp" in December.
>
> I wish to see you on the next report and at the conference next year!
>
> Thank you all,
> Masao
>
> [1] http://kaede.nier.go.jp/wiki/?code4lib2010 (in Japanese)
>    Organizers are: Yuka Egusa (@yegusa), Tetsuo Sakaguchi (@tsaka1),
>                    Masao Takaku (@tmasao), and Takanori Hayashi (@tzhaya)
> [2] http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5577978
>
> --
> Masao Takaku  //  [log in to unmask]  //  http://masao.jpn.org
> // Senior Engineer
> // Scientific Information Office, National Institute for Materials Science
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> // Tel: +81-29-859-2813   Fax: +81-29-859-2400
>