During the break, we were able to see demos of projects. Due to the number of people, space and time – I only really saw one completely. This was dPlan – a project of the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) which is well known for its preservation classes, tutorials and work in the field of... more ›
Stewardship in the Digital Age Managing Museum and Library Collections for Preservation and Use Day 1 The first day of the conference proper began with welcome messages from Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, Director of IMLS; Jay Jordan, President and CEO of OCLC; and Dr, Ken Hamma, Executive Director, Digital Policy, J. Paul Getty Trust. This was... more ›
Sharing Images and Data: Making Access to Collection Easier and Better Moderated by Ken Hamma, Executive Director, Digital Policy, J. Paul Getty Trust This session was focused on art museums and cultural collections, and their attempts at digital preservation. The presenters were: Barbara Thompson, Witt Librarian, Courtland Art Institute, London discussed her efforts in digital... more ›
Valerie Glenn discussed Web Harvesting– the automated capture of web materials. As part of her project, Cyber Cemetery , she attempts to capture materials in danger of disappearing- basically defunct government web sites. Glenn uses a web harvesting tool called “Heritrix” . A site that defines the issues in web harvesting is Web-at-Risk wiki. Mary... more ›
Presented by Priscilla Kaplan, Asst. Director for Digital Library Services at Florida, Center for Library Automation Kaplan began by distinguishing between 3 terms: Curation – The activity of managing the use of data from its point of creation, to ensures its usability for a contemporary purpose, and also available for reuse. Archiving – A curation... more ›
I decided I’d rather not leave my truck in Greensboro in airport parking for a week. So, at 7:20 Tuesday morning Kathie dropped me off at the WS Transportation Center on Liberty Street. At 7:30, I boarded a PART bus for the Greensboro hub. It cost me $2. In Greensboro, I transferred to a bus,... more ›
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 ›