
A couple pints at the Dog and Duck after the JCDL workshop. Excellent. 
 is over now. lots of people going to see the austin bats tonight. should be interesting!
 he is building a cival war archive to facilitate student generated content creation at a medium sized public univ. 
Today I learned about creating OS X Finder workflows - thanks to  and  A nice way to end the week.
Part of our workshop - build a librarian. Ours was tatted rebel librarian 
I should run this analysis tomorrow; as of 12:48 pdt, JCDL2009 tweet counts: 124  56  41  29 
From  to  Wikipedia is always on the schedule
Morrill: which small segment of your userbase do you wanna 'own'. and 'own' them. 
  nice to follow along w/ workshop discussion after leaving 
Morrill: pizza hut starved students of pizza for 2 months, and then asked them what type of pizza they wanted. funny. 
Morrill - developing a target user begins by segmenting the population, segments are stable, identifiable, measurable, predictive 
Morrill - example - the idea store in the UK - focused on younger, tech interested users, but brought in others in the community 
morrill - focusing on target users does not need to exclude other users. Orgs that focus on a target user get many other users 
Morrill: if you try to support everybody then you struggle to properly support anyone. focusing on one group wont exclude others 
Morrill if your target user is everybody, there is a good chance that your actual users will be nobody 
Morrill - selecting a target user deciding whether to be all things to all people or specialize 
Morrill is back again, what an over-achiever ;-) If you build it, they will come...maybe... 
george: its not just students: if you have keen study participants. recruit them to support the evaluation too! 
Sally Jo Cunningham - collaborative music selection at social gatherings- 30 student observers generated 250 pages of observations 
Sally Jo Cunningham - Distribute data collection - uses students as interviewers 
sjc: 80 students x 2 interviews. (for example) is LOADS of interviews. quality is often questioned. but diversity of Qs is rife! 
Sally Jo Cunningham - lightweight method - Mine existing data sets, example music playlist construction 
sjc: method 3: share the load. have lots of students? get them to get data. its good practice for them! and you. 
sjc: in previous experience: interviewees tell you about their 'serious' mixes of music. artofthemix.org gave fun examples, etc. 
sjc: method 2: mine existing data, rather than generating new data. wanna know about music collections? hit artofthemix.org. etc. 
small studies w/multiple mthds to get big amts of data example from Rochester http://bit.ly/bAv2e - Sally Jo Cunningham 
sjc: method 1: lots of small studies rather than one large study. break down your big question into multiple aspects. 
sally jo cunningham on 3 ways to get maximal usability data from minimal effort  nice.
morgan and  - actually tagclounds or wordles make great coding guides for survey responses and interviews. 
morgan and  have been self studying their surveys for size/validity/etc. Refine/reduce your needs+questions unfront 
morgan and  talking to us about refining/optimizing surveys to make them as lightweight as possible 
FYI -  and  are tweeting about the lightweight user evaulation methods workshop at 
Amanda Xu integrating surveys into research  multiple audiences in evaluation design and their perspectives 
Amanda Xu: talking about how planners, owners, designers, builders, integrators, and users, each view 6 eval criteria differently. 
Need to consider the issues of rewards and participation in research participants - need to aggregate research 
Morrill and McMartin talking about running user panels to evaluate DL interfaces 
National Science Foundation evaluation guide - http://bit.ly/sxbr1
RT  Logic Models Also guides from NSF and CDC. http://bit.ly/1xHFmz - Kellogg Foundation evaluation toolkit 
Flora Mc Martin is talking about Logic Models http://bit.ly/1xHFmz - Kellogg Foundation evaluation toolkit 
Posted "Tweeting at JCDL" http://palblog.fxpal.com/?p=1166
brain is equivalent to clotted cream after 3 days of JCDL
just watched a introduction to SEASR in the Digital Content workshop at  and is amazed. Trying to resist the urge to scrap my code.
Max Wilson - very interesting tool for evaluating user interface of search interfaces, well worth a look. http://mspace.fm/sii/ 
In the Second Generation Digital Library workshop at JCDL -- looks like
Max Wilson - Evaluating search user interfaces - Sii - search interface inspector http://mspace.fm/sii/ 
George Buchanan - Avoid casting too wide a net in evaluation - Yes - a too much information problem. 
Buchanan, lightweight studies mean not thinking broad/vague, but about specific/targeted use. More on this later in the workshop.&#160;#jcdl2009
George Buchanan - lightweight evaluation as evaluation with a lot of scaffolding  jcdl2009
interesting crowd at the Lightweight User Eval workshop at  Should be good.
Mick Khoo is starting the lightweight evaluation for digital libraries workshop  it'll be interesting to see how it folds together
getting ready for a workshop on lightweight evaluation methods for digital libraries at JCDL in Austin, Tx
http://twitpic.com/7reuy bbq at Rudy's brisket, sausage, ribs http://bit.ly/J117U. 
RT  Lesk: "nobody from Amazon or Google is here, so this conference is irrelevant"  - I don't think world is driven by 2 Cos
Is glad that the last conference day at  is done. Any more conference and I would have had more things to do than time in a day.
Wait, another last tweet: What was the award winning paper? 
JCDL 2010 is in Queensland, hmmm. Have to see if I can swing that.  papers due jan 31 2010
In some way this last session should have been the first one. The discussion has just started. Frustrated. 
Lest - issue of small number of companies in control. Already a problem, if your amazon acct cancelled, lose some kindle function 
Cliff Lynch: the notion that something could be 'unpublished" is problematic in the US.  
We should worry about becoming dependent on only a few information resources and services. 
Michael Lesk: we are becoming dependent on only a few companies. Sensorship is dangerous.  
We're almost out of time and finally the discussion starts to open up. 
Gretchen Hoffman: targeted ads will require data collection. This scares people.  
Cliff Lynch: given amount of time people spend watching or ignoring ads, ads are preserved incredibly poorly.  
 I have the same kind of feeling. 
Cliff Lynch: advertising as erosion of attention. People tune most of it out.  
 Advertising is linked to future of publishing. companies pay attention to ad placement algos!  
this sort of open-ended panel discussion always leaves me feeling cold and angry. this one's not an exception. 
Cliff Lynch: fragmentation inevitable, mass culture a function of limits of technology.  
RT  Provenance, proof and trust - Upper layers of the SW,  [#jcdl2009 : future place for DLib conversation?]
Gretchen Hoffman: easier to avoid uncomfortable info online.  
 Google came out of NSF's DL funding in the 90s, but Lesk is right, DL is increasing irrelevant due to lack of funding.#jcdl2009
Michael Lesk: should look at how to run groups without vandals taking over.(e.g., Wiikipedia)  
Q: is intellectual fragmentation of society inevitable?  
Michael Lesk: what papers presented here matter to Amazon &amp; Google? DL is irrelevant.  
Gretchen Hoffman: Google's settlement makes this difficult.  
Gretchen Hoffman: if author doesn't step forward, author doesn't care. should go into public domain.  
Cliff Lynch: need holistic approach that deals with all cultural materials (games, books, images, etc.)  
Gretchen Hoffman: Law is slow, intended to be flexible. Need to battle it out, not satisfying.  
Issue of orphaned works in game world is huge 
Q: too many different contracts may confuse users.  
Ben Bederson: Fair use works well for Kindle: can download a free sample of any book.  
Gretchen Hoffman: not right that google should have to fight for the right to do the kind of scanning it is doing.  
At the Google as library redux JCDL ending panel
Gretchen Hoffman: such attitudes force publishers to react, to find other ways to make money.  
Gretchen Hoffman: freshmen don't get significance of intellectual property.  
Michael Lesk: why have a science library if all disciplines do their own archival?  
Michael Lesk: disappointed that library communicty doesn't handle scientific databases.  
Cliff Lynch: can online advertising be more effective if done properly? how to avoid flash-based garbage?  
Cliff Lynch: print ad rates are much higher than online rates. Why is that?  
Michael Lesk: need experiments to show new ways of doing things.  
Ed Fox: would like to have books available to the blind in audio to be available to others as well.  
Read  's novel "The Enthusiast" about fragmenting cultural interests and coherent society for fascinating POV 
Cliff lynch: small groups can obtain critical mass; big gap between that and coherent society.  
Cliff Lynch: how fragmented can news get before there is general distrust of the source? Reinforcement important.  
Cliff Lynch: audience size for any program is much less now than in the 60s -- many more channels.  
Cliff Lynch: facts suggest much of mass audience is already lost.  
Gerhard Fischer: important questions or what you read, not how you read it.  
Regrets my question about trust wrt Google and the Japanese maps locating the burakumin is now irrelevant in the panel discussion 
Gerhard Fischer: does personalized newspaper destroy common understanding, sharing experience?  
Gerhard Fischer: is the medium (book/device) an important aspect of reading? Is human attention the limiting resource?  
Cliff Lynch: secondary markets for books may be wiped out; nasty unanticipated effects.  
Michael Lesk: Euopean parlaimant now has Pirate Party dedicated to repeal of copyright law  
Gretchen Hoffman: How will this affect the law? Authors can be compensated, but not through current model.  
Gretchen Hoffman: business model for books may change to ad model.  
Gretchen Hoffman: copyright law enables contract law. Law needs to be modified.  
q: is copyright irrelevant vs. contract law?  
q: publishers fear loss of control over IP  
q: publishers can choose to enable audio. National Library Service can record audio without royalties.  
q: legal implications of convergence of devices? Kinbdle and iPhone don't work well together.  
Gretchen Hoffman: law is a gigantic club, not balanced, probelm for achieving our goals.  
Cliff Lynch: specific accommodations have been made in copyright law to make books available to the blind.  
Cliff Lynch: that's why authors started panicking -- separate stream of revenue  
NEMA meeting at JCDL. Music informational retrieval community round tripping from XML to RDF and back
Cliff Lynch: speech synthesis is much worse than recorded audio, but getting better. Soon should have plausible audio.  
Michael Lesk: Amazon retracted voice from books based on authors' complaints.  
q: blind people prefer spoken to braille books. Implications?  
Cliff Lynch: searching has replaced piling  
Michael Lesk: journals have moved to digital, but they are printed for careful reading. Hoarding of paper is gone.  
Gretchen Hoffman: we do need to find a new way of thinking about the space, including all the players.  
Q: not book vs. paper dichotomy; both important  
Mike Lesk says that google books (and JCDL) are irrelevant. Amazon digital books is where the action is.
Cliff Lynch: What do maintainers of collections need to do to facilitate integration into future DL environemnts?  
Cliff Lynch: integration of fragments of cultural materials from different traditions is a challenge  
Cliff Lynch: How soon and how much will reading on screen happen? More skeptical than Lesk about vanishing of book.  
Cliff Lynch: subversion of authorial voice vs. contribution to knowledge bases.  
Cliff Lynch: scientific data suggest a different future. much more interlinked, active, multimedia.  
Cliff Lynch: will libraries be PDF+search, or will they be knowledge environments?  
Google settlement is adopted only mitigates the problem of orphaned works in books (in the USA), not other media Cliff Lynch 
Cliff Lynch: settlement won't fix orphan works problem; limited to books. Photos, art, sound, not convered  
Cliff Lynch: fair use was not trial of century, settlement puts the issues aside.  
Cliff Lynch: Expectations of Google Book Scanning project were not met  
Future is skimming, searching and snippets, multimedia, and long tail - michael lesk 
Lesk: "nobody from Amazon or Google is here, so this conference is irrelevant" 
Michael Lesk: nobody here from Amazon or Google. This conference this irrelevant!  
Michael Lesk: Future is skimming, snippets, not reading.  
Michael Lesk: study compared paper book, pdf book: a lot more pages read in PDF  
Michael Lesk: Will Google have to license to Amazon?  
Michael Lesk: It's about Amazon, not Google. 3B books bought, 2B borrowed from libraries. 40Ml from research libraries.#jcdlgoogle 
Michael Lesk: books are not really paper  
Michael Lesk: Do readers want paper or pixels?  
Gretchen Hoffman: publishers, congress don't necessarily get the new situation.  
Gretchen Hoffman: search engine is fair use  
Gretchen Hoffman: user expectations, behavior, technology industry, content industry, regulation all affect each other  
JCDL Panel on Google as Library: Getchen Hoffman, Clifford Lynch, and Michael Lesk  
speaker just bagged a digital object live, onstage. oh, the humanity! 
several papers on Warrick and reconstructing web sites: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~fmccown/research/lazy/ 
Two (very raw, very basic) LDA topic analysis (using MALLET) visualizations for  papers: http://bit.ly/b3F51 http://bit.ly/ItZfE
Flashing back to my Internet Archive days, wondering if there are IP address assignment archives anywhere. Or is all that lost. 
talk: EverLast, adding temporal query to web archives http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~aanand/jcdl2009.pdf from Max Planck Inst. 
Konishiki! at  or, at least, on the screen.
grateful for J McDonough's talk "aligning METS w/OAI-ORE" pointing out issues but it seems they serve diff purposes, so why align? 
at JCDL learned that Austin has a company called OAI!! OAI
We're here at Day 3 of JCDL. First up: ALigning METS with the OAI-ORE Data Model
is wondering if he is going to make it to the morning session at  at this point.
right. i know its morning back home. but im finally going to bed before an exciting session tomorrow morning at 
JCDL 2009: Session 6 http://bit.ly/xNH9l Cheers Judith!
Schneider, Jodi: JCDL 2009 Poster Session in Second Life http://snipurl.com/kck1a
  SL poster session screenshots http://jodischneider.com/blog/2009/06/18/jcdl-2009-poster-session-in-second-life/ 
RT  Answering the question *What we should Preserve from a Digital World*, MS researcher Cathy Marshall at JCDL http://www....
 I am at JCDL2009 (Joint Conference for Digital Libraries, it's an International thing)
Thinking about going to see the bats 

Patricio Galeas:  of coeffficients determines passage size for computing similarity 
Answering the question &#8220;What we should Preserve from a Digital World&#8221;, MS researcher Cathy Marshall at JCDL http://www.jcdl2009.org/ in TX
Miles Efron: in effect, this a dimensionality reduction approach 
Patricio Galeas:q: why use FT? a: FT compression due to only some coefficient, also defines neighborhoods 
Patricio Galeas: neighborhood models outperforms other models using 40 terms and top-10 documents 
Patricio Galeas: query expansion based on term position: use neighborhood of terms to expand queries 
anybody at  who looks at twitter, a practitioner working regularly on designing DL interfaces?
Patricio Galeas: ranking optimization max similarity between query and function that describes the document. 
Patricio Galeas: low-order Fourier coefficients approximate term positions. Then use dot product to estimate similarity. 
Patricio Galeas: Positions are summation of delta fcns over document length. Replace all instances iwth a Fourier decompositon. 
Patricio Galeas: use position of terms in matching documents to estimate relevance 
hit the MAX_INPUT wall after the facebook talk made me look at facebook. actually leaning against the wall now in the far back. 
Patricio Galeas: frequency and distribution are predictors of relevance 
Patricio Galeas: Document Relevance Assessment via Term Distrubtion Analysis Using Fourier Series Expansion 
The Perseus project fragmentary author, fragmentary history talk was a speedy whole. 
abdi asks if difficulty of call-centre problem should have a weighting effect on the model. answer - yes probably. 
Mingfang Wu: both kinds were seen 
Mingfang Wu: Q: does type of query (known-item vs. exploratory) benefit differently from this approach? 
 asks if mentees learn from mentors, yes mentors are suggesting better queries to people, aswell as re-ranking results. 
Considering staying until Friday and using the extra time to explore Austin by car a bit, but most of my group is leaving early... 
Mingfang Wu: queries that don't have relevant documents do not benefit from approach 
Wu - simple answer. if a query is repeated 9 times or more, then the cost/benefit (in wage/time) is worth it. 
Mingfang Wu: Model suggests if query repeats at least nine times, it deserves attention from mentor 
Wu's call center mentor scenario. the cost of reranking is occured by mentor, and the benefit is for the supervisee. hard scenario 
Mingfang Wu: use time x hourly rate of different roles 
Mingfang Wu: cost=time spent to make assessment; benefit=time saved reading irrelevant documents. 
Mingfang Wu: reranked based on mentors' judgments of relevance; improved precision of 144%, 90$ and 41% at 1,3,10 documents 
Mingfang Wu: observed high agreement (78%) among mentors 
Mingfang Wu: Study: mentors judged relevance of randonly-ordered documents returned by 50 queries drawn from the query log. 
Mingfang Wu: But this approach has significant personnel costs. How to decide when to intervene? 
Mingfang Wu: mentors can spend time to re-order the list of results forwarded to the first-line call handler. 
Mingfang Wu: Example of collaborative information seeking between call handlers and more senior consultants (mentors) 
 always seems to be seconds ahead of me when tweeting about 
Mingfang Wu is talking about allowing users to manually change result-list-ordering in enterprise search systems. 
Mingfang Wu: What is the cost of human intervention to improve quality of results in a call center? 
Mingfang Wu: Cost and benefit Analysis of Mediated Enterprise Search 
 i don't know about you but i resemble that remark :) 
Frank McCown at JCDL talks about how to scrape your Facebook data - because ... how long will it last?
Oh, did anyone else get the venn diagram from the "After Facebook " talk ? 
was just told that twitter is the intersection of stalking, adhd, and narcissism by Frank McCown at 
really enjoyed another Cathy Marshall talk at  as usual.
many people in the audience seem to be not convinced by  at 
 re: tag with own tags; search with controlled terms. Strange, don't existing systems encourage the opposite? 
For the record, Cathy Marshall is  
marshall says folksonomies are NOT as useful as people THINK. 
marshall says folksonomies are NOT as useful as people thing. 
Cathy Marshall: tags don't have the folksonomc power that people say they do 
Cathy Marshall: location tags were not localized enough (Europe, italy, rather than Milan, Galeria); geotagging might be better 
i swear, if Cathy Marshall were giving this  talk at  all present would be exploding w/giggles
Cathy Marshall: tags for personal content, titles summarized, captions told story from guide book 
marshall says tags tell you about the place and artefacts. photo titles and descriptions tell you about the contexts and stories. 
Cathy Marshall: titles better than tags for finding picture 
Cathy Marshall: tags weren't as similar as the titles! 
Cathy Marshall: flickr has many instances of the same picture; might be useful to analyze tags on those pictures 
neat hack: Cathy Marshall studied reader annotations in many copies of same used course textbooks 
marhsall wants to put the question 'do folksonomies work?' to rest. lets put it behind us. 
Cathy Marshall: Want to answer the loaded question "Do folksonomies work?" 
Cathy Marshall's best paper nominee paper on the use of tags on flickr images. 
marshall begins on comparing user tags to other user-generated metadata. 
these last2, and the next paper, are best paper finalists  auto-assessment of quality. OCR triangulation, and c.marshall on tags.
 I noticed that people weren't identifying themselves. session chair should prompt that. 
Will Lund is talking about triangulating multiple OCR methods for better auto-archiving of old docs. 
 talking about problems with ocr...i am curious how prime recognition ocr sw deals with guessing
I seem to be the only1 preluding Qs with my name/affil. is that not normal at&#160;#jcdl2009 like it is elsewhere?
Jun 16, 2009 IEEE/ACM 9th Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).. http://garysguide.org/2360292
Bathard et al got 2 novice quality assessors to study 1k resources and found 5 key indicators/differentiators. used for autocheck. 
Just published JCDL 2009 ( http://bit.ly/56fO0 ) 
Bathard identified, using coding analysis, 25 dimension relating to quality. then found 12 key ones. appropriate graphics is top. 
ZATAMM meets JCDL. Hmm. 
 automating quality evall for dl collections
Bathard will go on to talk about a machine learning model based on the way experts assess resources. 
Bathard is talking about how you can scalably assess the quality of resources submittd to educational resources. studying experts. 
Enjoying  Tweets. This is one of the best uses of Twitter (Tweeting live event for those who can't be there).
 I'll post a list of links to  papers on  when there's a critical mass of them on authors' web sites.
study suggests users prefer to tag w. own tags, but search via controlld vocab. is web2.0 librarian role now curation tags-&gt;vocab? 
Timely Essay by Jeremy John "The future of saving our past" Nature 459, 775-6 11 June 2009 doi:10.1038/459775a 
 she said most of it is restricted access but i forget how/why, would be great if that were less so :( neat project, though! 
a million chinese books project - 100s of TBs worth http://www.cadal.zju.edu.cn/Index.action 
 thanks! graphviz is an endless supply of eye candy. this might read better: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dchud/3635453183/ 
graphs of mallet topics from  papers http://www.flickr.com/photos/dchud/3636247610/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dchud/3635432831/
 have you read Clarkson et al "Generalized Formal Models" paper from jcdl? looks interesting but it's not online.
Given the motivation of GeM, will the Impatient User wait for the statistical analysis required for the fusion? 
 cool! am drawing a graph. will do one for yours, too. 
 here's my stab at mallet topics: http://paste.lisp.org/display/81998 -- might want to strip boilerplate, orgs, etc 
 203 - talk on chinese character analysis is looking good :) 
Can't decide between sessions. Will croud source the choice, I guess. 
Gerhard Fischer: "mindless trust is more prevalent in experts-based cultures"... THE nugget of wisdom during this loooooong talk 
mallet's output, keys from  papers: http://paste.lisp.org/display/81957#1
Side effect of participatory culture: contrast between expertise and punditry. 
We're at JCDL 2009! Day 2 Plenary wrapping up.
Gerhard Fischer: one of basic skills to be taught is how to recognize trusted and reliable sources. 
How to teach how to recognize trusted and reliable resources? 
just used mallet to extract topic model from  papers. i think. any other attendee willing/able to talk me through how this works?
Gerhard Fischer: how can we establish trust and reliability in participatory cultures? 
Gerhard Fischer: mindless trust in experts is a problem 
is trying to set up Fedora Commons while waiting for Session 7 to start at 
Fischer: differences between standardization and improvisation.  2009
 tweeting and listening is a problem. 
Challenge: how to tweet and listen at the same time? 
Gerhard Fischer: how to combine head (basic knowledge and skills) with tail (personally meaningful problems) in learning. 
Gerhard Fischer: long tail in learning is personally-meaningful problems 
  continues to be very interesting. theres an enterprise search paper later today, i think.
Gerhard Fischer: democratic culture: "publish and filter" encourages more participation, but has issues of trust and reliability. 
Gerhard Fischer: consumer culture: problem with "filter and publish" is making all voices heard. 
Gerhard Fischer: 21st century problems are general systems and multi-disciplinary problems. 
hearing lots of talks about SVM/LDA at  see http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/ and http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/ (via  
Gerhard Fischer - moving from social productivity to social creativity 
My reaction to Fischer's claims: Participation would be encouraged more by task-tailored rather than generic tools. 
But my take is that SketchUp is so difficult to learn that in some ways it discourages participation. 
I'm jealous of the folks attending JCDL http://www.jcdl2009.org/
Gerhard Fischer uses SketchUp as an example of tools that enable culture of participation 
link to just-mentioned D-Lib article: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may02/wright/05wright.html 
Gerhard Fischer talking further on the emphasis for public participation and encouraging ownership of information problems. 
Gerhard Fischer suggest 'infoware', from ischools, will be more important for digital libraries than software inc HCI focus 
fischer's culture of participation: evolution of digital libraries : hardware -&gt; software -&gt; infoware; EE -&gt; CS -&gt; SI 
 do you know about these folks? http://www.language-archives.org/ met some of them yesterday at 
Another wait at the airport. On my way to Austin for  workshop and some meetings.
 yes the posters are still up at the Digital Preserve on Second Life 
Lots of other work showing different users have different needs (seniors, novice scholars, unsuccessful queriers, etc) 
Highlights from  poster session: CMS Informedia, UT University Collections, MetRe (metadata revision process), LCSH/wikipedia xwalk
Just finished presenting the poster for JCDL
 Is the virtual  poster session still up?
I'd say our virtual poster session went quite well, thanks to all who came in! 
 yeah I took screenshots and will blog  poster session soon. Great conversations, interesting visuals, glad I went.
interesting poster session some great posters for all interests. I liked the study of how users deal with 0 results in pubmed 
in Second Life for a poster session  http://tiny.cc/43Zws
Standing at my jcdl poster in second life sans wine and snacks
 dont miss our Second Life demo at  going on live now!
 *this* is the list i expected when extracting keywords from this conf's papers' texts: http://paste.lisp.org/display/81957 
Visiting SecondLife for the  poster session http://bit.ly/rJxqA
Shameless plug: stop by poster 190, back-right corner of the room. 
Curious.Judith &#187; Blog Archive &#187; JCDL 2009: Panel 1. What should we ... http://bit.ly/ZplBU
elvis in minute madness at  funny.
Elvis has arrived at 
 Minute Madness about Demos and Posters ... in three ... two ... one ... GO!
The JCDL poster session begins at 5:45 CDT http://bit.ly/rJxqA
TDL: lots of work with OAI-PMH + ORE for metadata + content replication, flexible (+scalable) architecture 
Texas Dig. Lib has clearly put a lot of thought (and resources) into their ETD workflow/management/infrastructure 
thanks for the outloud citation ed clarkson. good talk. im gonna need to read the paper to understand your model tho :) 
facets: looks like an interesting paper; relational calculus is clearly above my head 
facets structural design: hierarchy, indirect facets (facets about facets), single vs multi focus 
talk on faceted navigation at  right up my street. Go Edward Clarkson.
facets interaction design considerations: cascading + cardinality; 
formal models for faceted UI; faceted navigation survey, features, best practices to inform software development 
Writing while attending the  sessions is working : http://www.grey-cat.com/curious has notes up.
 neat talk, thanks for posting the video! 
video cmodel pres done; mp4 slides: http://bit.ly/dxIFO (launch from QT player) + pdf: http://bit.ly/9N2gg (less interesting...) 
 it would be good to surface the other associations being raised here as well. 
loving the idea of music info retrieval by chord sequence alignment 
keeps being reminded of old Neal Stephenson novels by the panel discussion at 
Answer to what we'll preserve in a born-digital world: everything. Except for the stuff we loose (which might be a relief) 
Glad that A.G. mentioned power [politics? control?] influencing what gets collected and preserved. 
wondering, if the grouping UI of ViGOR reduced number of queries needed, is this going to be useful for mobile technology? 
ViGOR: ran a test with TRECVID http://bit.ly/11R1oA ; interesting video corpus for discovery, users still preferred ViGOR 
ViGOR: grouping-based discovery showed more relevancy, faster, and a better user perception over youtube style interface 
is listening to the panel on digital archival at 
Megan Winget: talking about game performance archives and participation, making me geek out (silently) more than usual. 
Megan Winget: the rank(ed) amateur [ I read this as "rank(led)" user ... hmmm ....] 
Cathy Marshall: "Storage is cheap. Stewardship is not." 
big props to  for making deletion funny. in our house, though, "deletion couture" wins big awards 
Looking at tweets from Joint Conference on Digital LIbraries -  on twazzup http://bit.ly/38yaM
...design explicitly for preservation; going to have to focus on automated metadata generation. 
Anne Gilliland: primary materials are different than secondary materials (I.e., evidence); types/sources of content multiply;... 
Michael Lesk: we will save everything; won't catalog anything; search will help us find it; attention is the scare resource 
Panel 1: what to preserve in a born-digital world? And we're off .... 
Panel 1: what to preserve in a born-digital world? And we're off .... 
"Query Parameters for Harvesting Digital Video" -- focus on preserving context (usage, selection) over raw bits 
eating nice brownies at  watching marchionini talking about video library contexts.
Waiting for the "What should we preserve from a born-digital world?" panel to start, hoping the answer is not "not much". ;) 
Thinking of skipping paper session 5 and going to see the capitol this afternoon... 
The food is good at  Lunch was yummy!
   thanks! (and, cool!) good fodder for a little hacking during talks :) 
Attending JCDL conference in Austin TX
 yes, papers on on the USB drive. 
 (re: papers on usb drives) that was the case last year; haven't checked yet 
ah! just realized that the papers must be on the usb drives. is correct? 
wait maybe it was another conference where t-shirts were free... hmm. 
 t-shirts arent free this year. darn economy.
 couldnt really see how it was different to having microsoft word open all the time. 
Global Information Gatherer sounds like another general PIM application, Windows-only; why not live in the "cloud" for the campus? 
talk: disambiguating author names w/random forests: http://bit.ly/WREcM
RT  Borgman: "Communities are rarely as homogenous as they appear." [amen!] 
is getting the session he is working ready at 
is getting the session he is working ready at  I always
 I'll be there tomorrow on my way to Austin. Are you going to come over to texas for JCDL?
"interoperability is still a major challenge" - only if you think you're supposed to achieve it yourself, imho 
Borgman: "Communities are rarely as homogenous as they appear." [amen!] 
 Wondering if we need to think of Digital Libraries as activities rather than things? 
Hey  tonight's (CDT) paper session at JCDL is in Second Life.
So much of the "building capacity in higher ed via technology adoption" argument seems to adopt a "banking model" of education. 
nice to see science commons get a mention 
"global warming" on screen after discussing sensor data, a/c kicks in like a wind tunnel. digital libraries are amazing! 
Borgman: computer science should work as a partner with other disciplines [isn't that what 'informatics' covers? :-/ ] 
 I didn't get the diff between the Huntington Lib collection and the Google search first hits. 
looks to me like the first hit for "shakespeare's first folio" indeed is it... she said it isn't... am i missing something? 
borgman remembers seeing the poster, in the corner of the room, on the google prototype prior to the 1998 brin and page paper 
C Borgman: "digital library" - no longer used much. 
christine borgman steps up for keynote. Ed Fox was very complementary about her, and their time working together in the past. 
been years since i've been to a conf where more wore shirts w/collars &amp; nice pants than wore tshirts &amp; jeans. whatever that means. 
  - no wrestling needed.
Wow - two speakers from Asia were not given permission to travel due to the H1N1 virus. 
 easy enough.  it is!
  has many more tweets, despite being the longer tag.
sitting in keynote of JCDL09. well done, says chair, for surviving the 103f heat so far. 
 so  or  shall we arm-wrestle over it at the break?
Waiting for Christine Borgman's keynote to start. 
Off to join the  crowd.
On my way to JCDL
Made it to Austin, TX for JCDL; verdict is: it's hot.
In between flights at DFW on my way to 
 agreed, PLS RT and help more Iranians to see what's going on at Twitter: http://tr.im/oBom  
Updating secondlife in prep for tomorrow's  poster session. Everything feels trivial, thinking of Iran.
Arrived in Austin for 
anxiety is ramping up again for jcdl. whose bright idea was it for me to give a workshop talk?
JCDL doctoral consortium presentation went pretty well. One more to go!
Really impressed with the food at JCDL!
Sitting in the Oakland airport on the way to JCDL in Austin.
In screening line at SJC, heading to AUS for  . Do I need my middle name on my ticket?
didn't sleep much last night, and is now paying for in the tutorial he is attending at JCDL.
First day at JCDL, trying to wake up so I can go downstairs and register.
 looking forward to hearing about JCDL next Sat
[blogged] Poster presentation at JCDL 2009: I'll be leaving for Austin, TX, tomorrow afternoon to atten.. http://snipurl.com/k4lty
JCDL 2009 | Preserving the past, designing the future--today. http://ff.im/-3YMGJ
at the AT&amp;T conf center, U. Austin, Texas, for JCDL 2009
On the way to the airport for Austin, and JCDL
is in the JCDL SV meeting.
Registered for  http://www.jcdl2009.org/ - looking forward to digital library chit-chat.
On the way to austin for jcdl 2009
slidedeck ready; packing for JCDL in TX. At least the forecast is cooler now(?)... http://bit.ly/TrWRa
is in Austin for JCDL.
 attending JCDL next week, hanging out with my brother this weekend
back home from ETD 2009 in Pittsburgh, getting ready for JCDL 2009 in Austin
Enjoying that moment of silence between ElPub and JCDL
Ran a 5K at the gym after yesterday's rest day, now (still) finishing JCDL poster, hoping 16pt font is big enough on a 2'x3' poster. (?) :-/
Getting the presentations for  ready...
plotting out travel and sessions for JCDL in Austin next week. anybody else here going? 
Back in Berkeley doing last minute runs for CLEF and getting ready for JCDL next week. Been playing with Chandler from OSAF - almost useful
Working on slide for 1-min. madness at JCDL; seems to be taking longer than it should, thus no gym today (but will try to run home instead).
Now I am writing tween tweets for  while at  I don't like it one bit. Would prefer to play.
 that's this place, right? http://www.meetattexas.com/ same as jcdl? if that's convenient for you, and i can park near, 2pm works!
 i think monday is totally free - otherwise early evening after jcdl sessions tues or weds works. any of those work?
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB &amp; IEEE-CS TCDL. Austin, Texas.  http://www.jcdl2009.org/
