Emerging Tech: Bluetooth Beacons and the DPLA
This is the text of a talk that I gave at the NN/LM Greater Midwest Region tech talk on January 29, 2016. It has been lightly edited and annotated with link...
This is the text of a talk that I gave at the NN/LM Greater Midwest Region tech talk on January 29, 2016. It has been lightly edited and annotated with link...
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Helping patrons find the information they need is an important part of the library profession, and in the past decade the profession has seen the rise of ded...
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I threw my hat into the ring to be on the LITA Top Tech Trends panel at the ALA annual conference later this month in San Francisco, and never could I say th...
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a short talk at the second virtual meeting of the NISO effort to reach a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Pr...
The conference organizers for WSSSPE2 have posted the list of accepted papers and the application for travel support. I was on the program committee for thi...
This is related to the Supporting Cultural Heritage Open Source Software (SCHOSS) Symposium last month. More on that topic in June. I am serving on the pro...
As I did last year, I've set up Martin Hawksey's Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet (TAGS) to cover this year's Code4Lib conference twitter hashtag. This ...
During the American Library Association meeting in Chicago in 2013 I gave an "ignite" talk on open source software in libraries. (The "ignite talk" format, ...
Using Google Spreadsheets, the Twitter API, and the TAGS document template from Martin Hawksey, I've set up an archive of tweets with the hashtag #LITAForum....
These are slides and audio from presentation given at the LOUIS Users Group meeting, on October 4, 2013, in Baton Rouge, LA. The description of the talk was...
At the American Library Association meeting in Chicago last month I gave a 20 minute presentation that was a combination of an overview of interoperability a...
In the “very meta” category, this morning I gave a lightning talk about lightning talks to a crowd of about 150 at the LITA Lightning Talks session. More sp...
Last week I emcee’d the second Code4Lib Virtual Lightning talk session and I wanted to record some notes and pointers here in case me (or anyone else) wants ...
On December 6, 2012, the Audience and Participation workstream met at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. About ...
Below is my report of the DPLA AppFest last month. This post is the raw input of an article on the IMLS blog that was co-written with Mary Barnett, Social M...
ALA has its "Virtual Conference" coming up on July 18th and 19th. It is two days of at-your-desktop talks on some of the most interesting topics in librarie...
It is that time of year again where representatives from the library profession all gather for the annual Annual Library Association meeting. This year it i...
The snow is falling here in central Ohio, so I'm eager to leave here and head to warm Dallas for ALA Midwinter 2012. I'm looking forward to catching up with...
June 10, 2011 – AT&T Executive Education Conference Center, Austin, Texas, United States
Today was the second day of the Open Repositories conference, and the big highlight of the day for me was the panel discussion on using Fedora as a storage a...
Today was the first main conference day of the Open Repositories conference in Austin, Texas. There are 300 developers here from 20 countries and 30 states....
This week I am attending the Open Repositories conference in Austin, Texas, and yesterday was the second preconference day (and the first day I was in Austin...
One of the highlights of the Code4Lib annual meeting is the “lightning talk” rounds. A lightning talk is a fast-paced 5 minute talk on a topic of...
On Sunday evening, the OCLC Innovation Lab held a public demonstration of a project with the working title, A Web Presence for Small...
A last-minute change to my plans for ALA Midwinter came on Tuesday when I was sought out to fill in for a speaker than canceled at the ALCTS Digital Preserva...
The end-of-year holidays are behind us and (in the northern parts of the northern hemisphere) the cold days of winter in front of us. What better time to ba...
At the American Library Association conference this weekend, I'll be part of a panel presentation from the LITA Emerging Technologies Interest Group with the...
This year the ALCTS Forum at ALA Midwinter brought together three perspectives on massaging bibliographic data of various sorts in ways that use MARC, but wh...
I think it is a statistical anomaly that many of the meetings I attended during ALA Midwinter were somehow related to OCLC. That statistical anomaly has cer...
The year is coming to a close, so that must mean that the midwinter meeting of the American Library Association is right around the corner. Yep, there it i...
For those interested and involved with distance and technology enhanced learning or have attended one of the past ODCE/LLT higher education conferences, you'...
Add this event to your desktop calendar program. Next Monday (November 30, 2009) a colleague at the Library of Congress will be giving a presentation on mode...
The theme of the 2010 Ohio Educational Technology Conference, P-20 Conversations: Shaping a Path for the 21st Century Student, addresses the need to provide ...
Add this event to your desktop calendar program. There will be two programs at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago where aspects of the Open Library Environ...
Despite the problems I'm having with the slidecast function of SlideShare, I've gotten the results "good enough" to post. You can see and listen to the pres...
I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2009 meeting of the Ohio Higher Education Computing Council (OHECC) on OhioLINK's plans for a new discovery layer. I...
The latest edition of American Libraries Direct published today has a story about an unconference that precedes the ALA Annual conference in Chicago this Jul...
Community-shared metadata has certainly been a hot topic of late. It is timely, then that ALCTS is sponsoring a panel discussion about sharing library-creat...
Dr. Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist dubbed “the explainer” by Wired magazine, will give the keynote address “Mediated Culture: Tal...
Add this event to your desktop calendar program. Pre-conference workshop descriptions [PDF] and the preliminary program [PDF] as well as the registration for...
Earlier this week, LITA announced its unconference event: LITACamp. The meeting is scheduled for May 7-8, 2009 at the OCLC Conference Center in Dublin, Ohio...
Don’t delay -- submit your proposal and be part of Ohio’s premier higher education conference, The University System of Ohio’s Learning, Li...
This is interesting news -- Don Hamparian, Manager WorldCat Grid Portfolio at OCLC, formally announced the WorldCat Hackathon to the WorldCat Developer Netwo...
Add this event to your desktop calendar program. University System of Ohio Learning, Libraries and Technology Conference Pre-conference Workshops: March 1, ...
I'm pleased to be able to report a successful running of a BarCamp here earlier this week. Billed as BarCampOhio/LibraryCampOhio -- a mixture of .com and li...
Download iCal file Registration is open for the BarCampOhio/LibraryCampOhio meeting on Monday, August 11th from 10am to 5:30pm at the OCLC Co...
In March, I gave a presentation at the NISO forum on Next Generation Discovery Tools: New Tools, Aging Standards. For those that were there, you may remembe...
Download iCal file Announcing the BarCampOhio/LibraryCampOhio meeting on Monday, August 11th from 10am to 5:30pm at the OCLC Conference Center in Dublin, OH....
The American Library Association annual conference is getting more social each year, and as a long-time member of ALA and often a critic of the, well, un-tog...
First, kudos to the vendor that runs the ALA Meeting Planner website. They listened to suggestions and now include a way to download your event planner info...
Here is my planned schedule for ALA Annual in Anaheim. Reality, of course, may be different. If anyone is interested in talking about electronic textbooks,...
Below are the supplemental links for the presentation at the NISO workshop on discovery layers in Chapel Hill, NC, on March 28, 2008. Update 20080404T1124 : ...
NISO is conducting a workshop later this month called Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards. The workshop is described this way: "Discoveri...
The Columbus Metropolitan Library, OCLC, and Ohio State University and OhioLINK have put in a bid as host site for the 2009 Code4Lib meeting. Code4Lib is an...
Copied from the press release announcing the U.K. Public Meeting for OAI/ORE. Open Archives Initiative Announces U.K. Public Meeting on April 4, 2008 for Eu...
Formal information about the AADL Camp is available on the Library Success wiki, including logistical details, a list of people that are planning to attend, ...
Still deciding whether to attend the Ohio Digital Commons for Education 2008 Conference – The Convergence of Learning, Libraries and Technology? Here a...
Here is a map of official conference hotels and a link to download the KML file into Google Earth. ALA Midwinter 2008 Hotel KML Location file I'm somewhat di...
The preliminary program [PDF] and conference registration for the 2008 Ohio Digital Commons for Education (ODCE) Conference is now available. As a member of...
At the Academic Library Association of Ohio meeting last week, I saw a presentation by John Burke, director of the library at Miami University – Middle...
Where can faculty, administrators, librarians and technology gurus all meet to discuss learning, libraries, technology and the convergence of these activitie...
NPR's Headquarters, looking east Side view of the triangular building, looking from Mt. Vernon Square. The DC Convention Center is just to the north of ...
[Aside: I'm not quite sure what the procedure is for posting on LITAblog.org. This report was posted there last night to appear at something like http://ww...
There will be a meeting of the LITA JPEG 2000 Interest Group during the annual conference of the American Library Association in Washington, DC, from June 2...
"Participatory Digital Libraries" is the name of a talk Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org, gave this morning at OCLC's Kilgour Auditorium. Known as "The P...
Following in the footsteps of last year's annual conference and the midwinter meeting earlier this year, there is now a conference tracking page on the Hitch...
Richard Rodgers presented this talk based on the work of he and MacKenzie Smith in the Digital Library Research Group at MIT. The original abstract of the p...
Chris Wilper gave this presentation on behalf of the work that he and Aaron Birkland did to improve the performance of the Fedora Resource Index. Present...
This is a summary of a presentation by James L. Hilton, Vice President and CIO of University of Virginia, at the opening keynote session of Open Repositories...
Join George Siemens — a leading theorist on the implications of technology and societal trends on learning and knowledge — to examine how changi...
This morning, Sandy Payette of Cornell University and FEDORA project co-director, gave an update on the FEDORA project including a statement of a vision for ...
Below is the outline of the Ohio DRC presentation from today's FEDORA session at Open Repositories conference. Comments welcome! Executive Overview of the ...
Are you blogging the Open Repositories conference in San Antonio this week? Are you posting pictures to Flickr? if so, may I suggest using the 'icor2007' ta...
ODCE 2007: The Convergence of Learning, Libraries and Technology conference is set for March 4-6, 2007. You can view the preliminary program and pre-conferen...
There was a great crowd at the University of Windsor "Future of the ILS" symposium. The presentation is available from http://dltj.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
It is my honor and pleasure to be asked to speak at a one-day symposium called "The Future of the Integrated Library System" hosted by the University of Wind...
Proposals for the Ohio Digital Commons for Education 2007 Conference — The Convergence of Learning, Libraries and Technology — are due on Friday,...
I know I said I would only be taking "a day's break" from posting about applying the Service Oriented Architecture pattern to library services but, well, rea...
Where can faculty, administrators, librarians and technology gurus all meet to discuss learning, libraries, technology and the convergence of these activitie...
Open Repositories 2007 is coming up next year, and it looks to be an interesting meeting. The first day is open user group meetings for DSpace, Fedora, and ...