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 > // 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0047 JAPAN > // Tel: +81-29-859-2813 Fax: +81-29-859-2400 >