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too much jetsetting
I’m so tired of travel.
On Friday I came back from the latest – to Maryland on Tuesday, to give a talk at MITH; and then DC for the Reinvention Center conference. This was my fourth trip in just under two months: the other three were to Nebraska (digital humanities workshop), Fredericton (text-analysis conference) [...]
Readex: Daniel on traveling around the world, virtually.
Steven F. Daniel, NewsBank [parent company of Readex]. “Around the world in 80 documents: International content in 19th-century congressional publications.” Last presentation of the institute! Go Readex, y’all inspired me to blog THE WHOLE THING. That’s a first.
Get this: it’s possible for Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg (protagonist of Around the [...]
Readex: Reese on wall-less libraries.
[The second talk of the morning was mine; I was a bit busy and didn't blog it. It went very well.]
Terry Reese, Oregon State University, “Breaking out of the box: Libraries without walls.”
Terry is not just a librarian but also a client-oriented infrastructure and application developer. He “lives metadata,” all the time, is a [...]
Readex: Redmond on digital maps.
Ed Redmond, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (LC), “Digital Maps and Digital Map Reference.”
LC has been around since 1800, and has been collecting maps for the entire time. Over 5 million map sheets dating from 1830 to the present! That’s a lot of maps. In fact, more than anyone [...]
Readex: Molinaro on finding your niche.
Mary Molinaro, University of Kentucky. “Finding your niche: Leveraging limited resources to build a digital program.” Oh, this will be great. Resources are almost never sufficient in the humanities, as Mary herself mentions right at the beginning. :)
First, though, she demonstrates a VHS tape she found titled “Richard Simmons groovin’ [...]
Readex: Beacom on content standards
Matthew Beacom, Yale University Library. “After AAACR2 [Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules]: Content standards for resource description and access.” He’s all about cataloguing cultural objects.
AACR == great example of international agreement regarding digital standards. What surprises MB is that the agreement has survived for this long, and has been amended/improved too.
AACR (created in 1978) [...]
Readex: Aguera and Sweeney on National Digital Newspaper Program
Helen Agüera is in Program Development with the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Mark Sweeney is in Preservation Planning at the US Library of Congress (LC). The full title of their joint presentation is: “National Digital Newspaper Program: Enhancing Access to America’s Newspapers.”
Agüera first. NEH programs: preservation & access; scholarly [...]
Readex: Imholtz – on the irreality of the past and its consequences in the digital world
This is the fourth annual Digital Institute. It’s remarkably relaxed. Sorry for lack of attributions in some places below: I can’t see everyone’s nameplate from where I’m sitting.
August A. Imholtz, Jr. is the Vice President of the Readex Documents Division, and an engaging speaker. This (along with all of the other [...]
Leave it to yet another public gathering…
…to get me blogging again. I hope.
Much has happened on the personal front. For one, I’m back to the PhD gig, writing my dissertation this year. Been kinda re-evaluating this whole blogging thing, but for now I’ll just try to blog the 2006 Readex Digital Institute in scenic (whooboy, is it scenic! [...]