I thought I'd report on what happened today at the IASSIST conference in Madison Wisconsin.
First of all upon registration and going through my bag I discovered a box (that I haven't opened) that is something called The original Cow Pie - the first ingredient is chocolate, so how bad can that be.
I thought I'd report on what happened today at the IASSIST conference in Madison Wisconsin.
First of all upon registration and going through my bag I discovered a box (that I haven't opened) that is something called The original Cow Pie - the first ingredient is chocolate, so how bad can that be.
The plenary session was about a project that has applied for funding on data archiving (in the U.S.). Richard Rockwell from the Roper Center at University of Connecticut told a compelling story about punch cards from a survey done in post-war Germany that had been stored in the basement . Another example is the uses the data from the Stanford experiment http://www.prisonexp.org/ and the relevancy that has for the stuff happening in Iraq.
Another really interesting project from Hungary is the Institute for History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, http://www.rev.hu/index_en.html which includes taped transcripts, photographs and other information.
Ann Green and Julie Linden from Yale reported on a project testing the digitization of a series from the Economic Growth Centre Digital Library. The project took volumes of tables from Mexico and converted to tiffs, pdfs, and selective excel tables.
Cor van der Meer talked about an EU project called Mercator Education - http://www.mercator-education.org/sjablonen/3/default.asp?objectID=791
designed to help preserve minority languages in the EU.
He also mentioned i-TOR -
Note - also mentioned Lucene - could this be used to make our eReserves full-text searchable?
Couple good sessions of assessing user needs - survey we could borrow - http://www.lib.utk.edu/refs/data/survey.pdf
"Mapping the past with GIS"
- three really interesting projects about mapping historical data and the challenges
There's interesting things coming out of the UK - agcensus - http://edina.ac.uk/agcensus/ - but it is not actually there yet
Go-Geo - Geographical Information Portal - http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/
Geo-X-Walk - http://hds.essex.ac.uk/geo-X-walk/
E-MapScholar http://edina.ac.uk/projects/mapscholar/index.html
http://commongis.jrc.it/ - CommonGIS - come back to that.
OK - all for now, off to a barn dance!!!