Feb 13 2012
Jan 01 2012
2012 DigCCurr Public Symposium – CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections
Next Friday, January 6th is the 2012 DigCCurr Public Symposium!
This year’s title is “CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections”. CurateGear will be an interactive, day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. See demonstrations, hear about the latest developments, and discuss application in professional contexts.
For more information and to register visit the symposiums website at: http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/2012symposium.html.
Looking forward to hearing about the various tools and methods that the speakers will be discussing and demonstrating.
Dec 07 2011
iDCC 2011
This week I’m at the International Digital Curation Centre Conference in Bristol, UK. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/. The conference has been a whirlwind of meeting great people, hearing thoughtful talks, and seeing excellent posters. I always appreciate how much the iDCC conference really challenges me to think about my own research and push it further, as well as have fun in the process. This year, the conference is in Bristol, which I’ve never been to before. Its lovely here, but chilly compared to Chapel Hill. There are plenty of places to walk around and good museums near the conference hotel.
I did present a poster with my fellow fellows of DigCCurr, http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr/index.html, that investigated the current digital curation certificate programs in several universities in the United States and received some really nice feedback, many people wanting to know more than we were able to fit on the poster.
Jul 13 2011
AERI 2011
This week I’m at the AERI, Archival Education and Research Institution in Boston, it has been a fantastic week!
I am presenting a poster, with my co-author. The poster is titled “Use and Non-Use of Social Media in Scholarly Research”. We conducted a study that explores how scholars, specifically natural scientists, are using or not using social media during their research process.
Here’s a link to the site: http://aeri.gseis.ucla.edu/2011.html. I’m already excited for next year, great people, great conversation!
Jan 06 2011
2011 DigCCurr Public Symposium, “Curate Me: Stewardship of Personal Digital Archives”
The day-long 2011 DigCCurr Public Symposium, “Curate Me: Stewardship of Personal Digital Archives,” will take place January 7, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room of the Wilson Library.
About the Symposium
- Explore strategies for:
* Integrating personal digital information into the curation workflow
* Guiding individuals to manage their own collections of digital content
* Engaging audiences with collections of personal digital information - Meet other professionals working with digital collections and personal information
- Participate in collaborative group discussions with attendees and panel speakers
This one-day event will include panel discussions with experts and interactive group sessions. Coffee and a lunch will be provided.
Panelists will include:
- Cathy Marshall, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley Lab
- Cal Lee, Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science UNC-Chapel Hill
- Helen Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science UNC-Chapel Hill
- Nancy McGovern, the Digital Preservation Officer for the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
- Naomi Nelson, Director of the Rare Books, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University
- More to be announced!
Registration is $40 and includes coffee breaks and a boxed lunch.
For more information or to register for this event, go to: http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/symposium2011.html
This event is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, IMLS Grant Award #RE-05-08-0060-0
Oct 14 2010
Banner Photos
Since I’ve had several people ask me what the photos are on the banner I will explain them all left to right. All of these except for one (#3) were taken by me on various travels.
Photos:
#1 Eiffel Tower
#2 The British Museum
#3 Mardonio Magana. My great-great-great grandfather with one of his sculptures. For more information see, http://escultormagana.com
#4 Plaza de Espana – Sevilla, Spain
#5 Casa de Pilatos – Sevilla, Spain
#6 Gibraltar
Oct 14 2010
Open Access Week
Next week is International Open Access Week,
October 18th to October 24th.
Here is the link to the homepage: http://www.openaccessweek.org
Here is the link to some of the UNC-Library activities: http://www.lib.unc.edu/scholcom/openaccessweek.html
I hope to follow up this post with some of the activities I attend next week.
Oct 12 2010
SILS Doctoral Student Symposium
This Friday is SILS Doctoral Student Symposium. I’m looking forward to seeing what my fellow doctoral students are working on. I’m sure I’ll be presenting next year. Information is below.