(From Dean Krafft)
Slides from Dan Russell’s JCDL keynote talk on “Searching For the Mind of the Searcher” are now available on his web site at
http://dmrussell.googlepages.com/.
There’s another nice blog report on the talk From Deborah Kaplan at http://gnomicutterance.livejournal.com/17413.html.
Here are some short, but nice, highlights at
http://frankmccown.blogspot.com/2007/06/jcdl-2007-day-2.html
JCDL 2007 on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=jcdl+2007

John Willensky gave the keynote address on June 21 at JCDL 2007 while waving a sheaf of paper notes to emphasize his departure from Power Point presentation technology in the interest of communicating directly with the audience assembled in Vancouver. He referred to this style as, “An homage to openness.”
Willensky, a professor in the Department […]

A panel discussion about the Open Archives Initiative Object Re-use and Exchange (ORE) was chaired by Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information. Panelists included Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University, Neil Jacobs, Joint Information Systems (JISC) UK, and Carl Lagoze, Cornell University on June 20 at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Vancouver.

Carl Lagoze speaking […]

What happens when a web site goes missing either due to technical or organizational reasons? This happens every day for lots of different reasons–fires, floods, computer viruses, no legacy plan or interest after the death of a specialized content provider, inattention, or lack of back-ups can all mean that a favorite web destination disappears. Frank […]

JCDL 2007 is being held at The Westin Bayshore on Coal Harbor in Vancouver.
The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2007 got underway with blue skies overhead as sea planes taxied along Coal Harbor on the edge of Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. Daniel M. Russell, Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness […]

Please excuse this diversion — the following post doesn’t have anything to do with what we’ve seen recently at conferences — but the post “Shrek Gets Fired” (May 23, below) opens a can of worms, and I can’t resist. In a free society where delicious food is cheap, plentiful, and heavily advertised, how should we […]