working in a consolidated universe
In her post about the >play Digital Media conference Anne mentioned the keynote by Shantanu Narayen, COO of Adobe. For me the most interesting thing to contemplate is the likely …
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This past Saturday I had the privilege of attending >play: Berkeley Digital Media Conference created by the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. The major sponsors of the event …
Read MoreUsing up our words…
I attended the Association of Research Libraries membership meeting last week and stayed on for a forum titled Managing Digital Assets: Strategic Issues for Research Libraries that ARL co-sponsored with …
Read MoreBrewster profiled
Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive was profiled in Sunday’s San Jose Mercury News. The online version of the article does not include “five things to know about Brewster Kahle.” …
Read Moreand we’re in for the next round
Last night at the launch event for the Open Content Alliance, RLG was announced as a partner. RLG is contributing the RLG Union Catalog as a source for data to …
Read MoreThe future has to start…
Yesterday I participated along with two other RLG colleagues in an invitational day-long workshop sponsored by the Open Content Alliance (OCA) hosted by one of the founding participants The Internet …
Read MoreArchivists’ Toolkit
Lat week, I attended an advisory board meeting for the Archivists’ Toolkit project. The AT aims to provide open source software that will help archives of all sizes manage and …
Read MoreWho took that picture?
A long commute of listening to NPR makes for a person who has a lot to contribute at dinner parties, and it also helps with the occasional blog entry. Here’s …
Read MoreShowing up
About a month ago my colleague Günter wrote a post about the way in which our communities interact with industry. He wondered “How do we communicate that the use of …
Read MoreThe more things change…
Today is the last day at RLG for one of the community’s best advocates and long-time leaders. Linda West, who has managed RLG’s Member Programs and Services for nearly a …
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