DLI Busy with Conferences and Workshops
November 16, 2011
Digital Library Initiatives (DLI) has seen a flurry of workshop and conference activity in the last two months.
Associate Head for Digital Library Development Tito Sierra spoke at two meetings recently. Earlier this month, Sierra presented “The Project One-Pager: A Simple Tool for Collaboratively Defining Project Scope” at the Project Manager’s Group Meeting of the Digital Library Federation Forum 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland. Details on the elements and uses of the tool are available in his presentation slides .
Sierra and Digital Collections Technology Librarian Jason Ronallo travelled to the National Archives in Washington, D. C., to participate in the first Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Plenary Meeting. Along with co-author and DLI head Steve Morris, Ronallo and Sierra were invited to present their submission to the DPLA Beta Sprint . Beta Sprint proposal submitters were asked to demonstrate an idea, model, or prototype that was “expressive of a direction in which we might take the DPLA.” Slides are available from their presentation “DPLA Collection Achievements and Profiles System ." You can also listen to an interview with Sierra and Ronallo about the system on the DPLA website.
In October, Digital Technologies Development LIbrarian Cory Lown and Libraries Fellow Charlie Morris drove to Richmond, Virginia, to present at edUi 2011 , a web conference primarily for educators, librarians, and museum staff. Morris, who works on his Fellows’ strategic initiative with the DLI Web team, presented practical techniques to improve use of web traffic statistics in “5 Ways to Make Use of Your Google Analytics .”
Lown presented "Lessons from WolfWalk: Interface Design for Tablets." WolfWalk was released as a native iPhone app and a web app in 2010. In his presentation, Lown described the process of modifying the original WolfWalk interface to suit the larger screen of an Apple iPad. The iPad version of the app was released last June with expanded content.
Libraries Fellow Mike Nutt recently received a scholarship to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria, British Columbia, next summer. The scholarship helps pay registration costs for the weeklong workshop, “Designing RESTful APIs.” DLI veteran Markus Wust will also be attending DHSI, where he will lead a hands-on workshop entitled “Augmented Reality: An Introduction.”
Earlier in November, Libraries Fellow Brian Norberg was part of a team of NCSU librarians that shared models and encouragement for librarians and other institutions reaching for new heights in their use of collections management data. Along with Darby Orcutt and John Vickery from Collection Management, Norberg presented "New Tricks for Old Data Sources: Mashups, Visualizations, & Questions Your ILS Has Been Afraid to Answer" at the 31st Annual Charleston Conference in South Carolina. They discussed the processes and results of several projects related to making better use of data on the Libraries' collections.
Digital Technologies Development Librarian Jason Casden traveled all the way to Japan to lead workshops at the Library Connect Workshop 2011, organized by Elsevier. Casden was the main speaker at two half-day workshops in on mobile technology in libraries. This involved presenting two talks each day, as well as moderating two group discussion sessions.