Conference reports and more from ZSR Librarians
Jordan provided an overview of OCLC & the library/information industry. He mentioned Worldcat.org (84 million records in woldcat 1.x million holdings, talks clickthroughs – 67M in 2005, 85M in 2006). Jordan observes that Worldcat is about driving user back to library through access links. He reports on upcoming features – more content (articlefirst, gpo, eric,... more ›
Michael Tiemann spoke as the keynote lecture during the 2007 Kilgour Symposium. He covered topics on open source sustainability and development principles and looked at how these forces work in industrial, educational, economic, and scholarship environments. Pointing to initiatives like Creative Commons, Open courseware systems, and what an ‘ownership society’ means in contrast to an... more ›
This morning sees the conclusion of icor2007 & begins with presentations on application profiles, repository interoperability, and OSA models. The final Keynote session revisited the ideas introduced in the SPARC discussion touching on future directions in scholarly communication and implications for open/closed publishing models. Perhaps more to come later. . . more ›
While Thursday afternoon included a number of interesting sessions, two in particular stood out for me because they emphasized the Open Access and Scholarly Publishing movements. . . . The first came from Eric Larson at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Eric works with the Office of Scholarly Communication & Publishing. He demonstrated some... more ›
It is worth pointing out that today finally saw sunny skies & 60+ degree weather. During lunch I headed down to the Institute of Texan Cultures – (Great virtual tour here) which was launched during the 1968 Worlds Fair. The key feature of the museum is a 360 degree dome movie presentation that has to... more ›
Yesterday during the opening keynote, Dr. James Hilton touched on a number of familiar themes from the recently released report on Software and Collaboration in Higher Education. It was interesting to hear him discuss the differing approaches to developing and supporting open source software in general and the implications that that structure has on the... more ›
More rain this morning. . .cold rain & lots of it (The AAA book talked about the dry warm conditions in TX!) The conference kicks off again today with more user group sessions. I’m hoping to skip around a bit this morning to catch up on new Dspace releases & find out where Fedora is... more ›
As I trundled across Hemisfair park this morning the promised rain began to fall so I was very happy when I found the Rivercenter & got inside. The first two days of Open Repositories is comprised of presentations from users of Dspace, Fedora, and E-prints – three of the largest open source digital library systems... more ›
I see Erik is already starting the next iteration of this blog from San Antonio, so I will keep this brief. I judge this to be a successful Midwinter. Seattle is nearly ideal as a Midwinter site, with all the hotels in walking distance of the Convention Center, the weather consistently over freezing, and plenty... more ›
Good morning from San Antonio! The Openrepositories conference kicks off this morning with user sessions on Dspace, Fedora, and Eprints. I am looking forward to hearing from the user communities on these applications. As I got into town yesterday I decided to try the public transit system and had an excellent tour from the airport... more ›