SLA June 15-18, 2008
Seattle, Washington
As usual, my activities were mainly with the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) division of SLA. I gave a brief report about the meeting “Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward” at which I gave a poster presentation on information fluency at the PAM-wide roundtable discussion. I gave a two hour poster presentation on […]

One strategy for classifying the millions of galaxies mapped by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey was to open the Galaxy Zoo, invite the public to look at the new creatures, and give them tools to record their observations.
When Alex Szalay is not considering improved strategies for managing and sharing big data, and how that […]

Martin Wattenberg developed the “Baby Name Wizard” which provides a visual analysis tool to help users assess the popularity of baby names over time as a companion to “The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby” written by his wife, Laura Wattenberg.
The opening JCDL plenary lecture […]

View of Pittsburgh from the Duquesne Incline at night. There are five funicular or cliff railways in the United States. Two of these inclined railways are located in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, PA At a conference where ideas about the theory and practice of information engineering in digital libraries would be presented, it was appropriate to […]

San Francisco, CA According to an IBM study all 1,407,724,920 people who use the internet will double the amount of digital information in the world every 11 hours by 2010. Should we keep it all? And if the answer is yes, how will that work exactly? Should it be accessible or will it land in […]