http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports NSDL reaches out to individuals and organizations by exhibiting, attending and presenting at national and international STEM meetings and conferences. Read current first-hand reports about NSDL-on-the-road including photographs! Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:59:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cheryl Lemke, CEO and President of Metiri Group, a consulting firm dedicated to advancing technology in schools presented to a full house of educators, technology coordinators and other educational technology professionals at this week’s National Education Computing Conference (NECC) held this week in San Antonio, Texas. In her ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/07/01/necc-cheryl-lemke-on-learning-innovation-and/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/06/23/special-libraries-association-2008/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/06/20/the-petabyte-problem-scrubbing-curating-and-publishing-big-data/ 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. ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/06/18/shakespeare-god-and-lonely-hearts-transforming-data-access-with-many-eyes/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/06/17/joint-conference-on-digital-libraries-opens/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/06/04/sun-microsystems-preservation-and-archiving-special-interest-group/ To listen to Howe's lecture click here: Download link NSDL Core Integration Director Kaye Howe. Saint Paul, Minnesota was the site of JA-SIG 2008 April 27-30, 2008. With the theme, "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way" it's no surprise that National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Core Integration Director Kaye Howe was ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/05/07/nsdl-director-kaye-howe-at-ja-sig-ubiquity-interdependence-and-the-age-of-collaboration/ On April 23, 2008 Cornell University's 2005-2008 Networks Theme Project capped the three-year teaching and research initiative with a lecture by team members including David Easley (Economics), Jon Kleinberg (Computer Science), Kathleen O'Connor (JGSM), Michael Macy (Sociology), and Dan Huttenlocher (Computer Science & JGSM) entitled "Getting Connected: Social Science in ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/04/28/getting-connected-social-science-in-the-age-of-networks/ Fedora Day at OR08 began as 50 Fedora Commons t-shirts with two different slogans flew off a table outside a lecture hall at the University of Southampton, UK. Fedora users, organizers, developers, vendors, and planners were assembled as part of the Third International Open Repositories Conference to share ideas and ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/04/03/fedora-day-at-or08-kicks-off-with-organizational-and-technical-overview/ The Southampton Bargate located in the midst of downtown shops, is part of the old town walls dating back to the Saxon era. The Third Annual Open Repositories Conference (OR08) opened at the University of Southampton, UK, on April 1, 2008 with an observation by conference co-chair Les Carr. He ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/04/03/repository-leaders-meet-in-southampton-uk/