My CNI breakout session yesterday went very well - it was a packed room, and the audience was gracious and seemingly very interested in OU's Skype reference experimentation. Roughly a third of attendees self-identified as IT-oriented, two-thirds were in library administration, with two or three "in the trenches" reference librarians also in attendance. The session... Continue Reading →
mashup contest: student created video parodies
CNI Project Briefing Tuesday December 11 at 10:30 by Anu Vedantham, director of the Weigle Information Commons and Peter Decherney, Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies Weigle Information Commons (collaborative digital multimedia lab) film trailer mashup contest in collaboration with faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Permission culture vs. remix culture - clash between... Continue Reading →
creating interactive course assignment pages: the OSU libraries ICAP creation tool
CNI Session, Tuesday Dec 11th @ 9 AM (I only caught the second half of this presentation) Designing course-specific web pages using a simple, interactive, drag/drop and WSIWIG editor developed at Oregon State Libraries by Kim Griggs, systems programmer. Software known as the Interactive Course Assignment Project (ICAP). Using the software results in easy/attractive course... Continue Reading →
public knowledge project: providing alternatives for scholarly communication
CNI Project Briefing December 11th at 2 pm, presented by G.W. Brian. PKP, or the Public Knowledge Project, has developed an open-source scholarly publishing software module at University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Their stated goal is to "improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online... Continue Reading →
“we steal with honor:” summa, explorative search, and the library catalog
CNI Project Briefing, Monday December 10th at 3:15 pm by Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard of the State and University Library Aarhus, Denmark How should I position my talk? How many in the room are technical, how many are in management? Exploring integrated search. Trying to change the way that we are serving the information to our users.... Continue Reading →
cni opening plenary: tim berners-lee and cni director clifford lynch
Tim Berners-Lee presenting the Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. Tim: I'm a "fan of open source and all good things." Purpose of the awards is to highlight those who were part of the open source community and involved in moving it forward. Awards limited to Mellon constituencies that contribute to open source development 10 awards... Continue Reading →
cni fall task force meeting
I'll be blogging and presenting at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting tomorrow - I've wanted to attend one of these conferences for some time due to their innovative and collaborative focus, and I'm also interested to see how my reference-centric "project briefing" is received amid the other sessions, many of... Continue Reading →
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