Workshops - March 5th

Building GenAI Projects for Research

Learn how to create custom research projects using commercially available AI tools to accelerate archival research and curatorial work. This hands-on workshop will show you how to build focused AI projects using vetted sources—without coding or complex infrastructure. We’ll cover three practical applications: rapid story prototyping for exhibits, synthesizing research... more

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Fail4Lib 2026

Although failure is part and parcel of our professional experience, we often go out of the way to avoid talking about it. When we see failure approaching, we distance ourselves, avert our eyes, or – if we’re in its path – brace for the worst. But failure has intrinsic value... more

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Hands-On with ArchivesSpace: Docker Installation, Customization, and API Integration

This hands-on workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to deploying and managing ArchivesSpace using Docker. Participants will gain practical experience with installation, configuration, plugin management, database administration, search engine maintenance and basic API usage.

What You’ll Learn:

We’ll begin by installing ArchivesSpace using Docker on participants’ laptops, minimizing installation complexity. We... more

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Hybrid: Future of Code4Lib Journal

Code4Lib Journal has long occupied a distinctive space within library technology publishing, offering an open, community-driven venue for practitioner scholarship that does not fit comfortably within traditional academic journals. As the journal has grown in visibility and scope, however, its largely informal structures—editorial, technical, and organizational—have come under increasing strain.... more

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Introduction to Omeka S Theming

Omeka S (https://omeka.org/s/) is a open-source web publishing platform for digital collections, that allows users to publish their items through flexible sites. Users present these web exhibitions using themes, packages that control the visual style and customizations of a given Omeka S site.

This workshop will introduce designers and developers... more

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Modern Alchemy: Hands-On with the Distant Reader

In this hands-on workshop participants will first learn how to use a Web-based system called the Distant Reader to transform sets of unstructured data (like bunches o’ journal articles) into structured data, affectionally called “study carrels”. These data sets are amenable to analysis by both people as well as computers.... more

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Running a Community Georeferencing Event

The website OldInsuranceMaps.net is designed as a “georeferencing commons”, a crowdsourcing site where anyone with an internet connection can sign up and georeference historical Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps from the Library of Congress digital collection, using a friendly workflow directly in a web browser. Since the initial pilot project... more

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Technical Introduction to Blue Core

The Blue Core project (currently in Prototype phase) is a shared BIBFRAME RDF environment allowing users across institutions to share and extend BIBFRAME Works and Instances in a collaborative manner. The Blue Core Prototype is a Docker-based environment and can be run locally on a developer’s laptop. This session would... more

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Using the OpenAlex API to Explore Metadata for 250M+ Research Publications

As many libraries look for open alternatives to subscription-based databases, OpenAlex has As many libraries look for open alternatives to subscription-based databases, OpenAlex has emerged as a major resource. It offers a comprehensive web interface for searching, but unlike many proprietary tools, it also provides fully open access to its... more

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