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 […]

DELOS and NSDL are collaborating on a summer school on Digital Libraries for Traditional Librarians in Settignano (near Florence), Italy on May 28-June 1. You can look for road reports and pictures as we report from the school!
Visions of the Digital Library

Posted for Robert Payo who is on the road at the 2007 EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2007.
So you’re stranded on a boat with multiple generations of learners: a baby boomer, a “gen x’er”, and a millenial “gen y’er”. The baby boomer looks for the manual to fix the boat while the the gen […]

Social networking tools and software were prime subjects at this years’ Western Regional Educause. Here is a short list of sites that people were talking about in their presentations. Some of them I had heard of, some of them not, but all of them were fun to check out and to ponder their […]

NOTE: Audio from  a public dialogue between researchers and long time collaborators Jim Gee and Henry Jenkins held on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at Cornell University is now available.
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I have to admit that the eight life-sized video projections around a dim room populated by clusters of two or three people at computers flying their […]

During each day of big meetings like NSTA every person comes away with a different view of what’s going on. Here are a couple of notes from my day.
Brennan Sapp, Kyla Hawkin, Mary Louise Pozaric and Rosemary Brown from Northern Kentucky presented a CSI-type simulation that they were using in Dixie Heights High School classrooms […]

Interior of the old Union Station, downtown building reflections, St. Louis on a foggy morning and the Arch in springtime.
St. Louis is a city with deep connections to TUMS, A.G. Edwards, Cardinals baseball, and some might say grand architectural statements, not necessarily related or in that order. The National Science Teachers Association is holding […]

•INSPIRED In talking with Eddie Ricard, a high school student from the Ohio Academy about his AAAS poster, “Eutrophication and Oxygen Depletion in Lake Superior,” the meaning of this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting theme–”Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being”–was crystal clear. Eddie had devised experiments in collaboration with researchers […]