CIL Day Two
CIL2006 - The Journey Continues
10:00 This morning's keynote was by Megan Fox, Planning for a Handheld Mobile Future. She discussed several devices that are capable of receiving digital content. Microsoft is developing a new font to replace Times New Roman that will be more readable on multiple devices. New apps are being created to produce native mobile content. A study to deliver student's schedules to their mobile devices raised the question, "If you can upload their schedule to their phone, why can't you turn the ringer off?" Another product described was a mobile digital search. Use your camera phone to take a picture of an object, then receive information about it. One example is to take a picture of a movie poster and get back reviews and theaters and showtimes, or video stores, in your area. I'm not quite sure how we'd ever de able to deliver digital content to a patron's smart phone, but we could send them information on the FHL in a text message or voicemail.
11:20 Lorcan Dempsey spoke about Structured data in the Web 2.0. He mentioned four specific areas where the 2.0 web was developing:
12:20 The Digitization Issues and Challenges panel was interesting. There were four panelists, two representing Kirtas and ebrary, one from a STM (Sct-Tech-Med) librarian, and Steve Abram. The tag-team sales pitch wasn't too compelling from my point of veiw. That's probably because our preservation focus is on materials completely different from what they are centering on. They're doing automated filming of printed books, we're doing preservation of materials that may be destroyed as part of the preservation process. So, their business model ain't in my world.
The STM perspective is that these types of libraries are disappearing and will probably go totally unnoticed once they are gone. I'll contest that, and say the users of those libraries will certainly notice. And if they pass away unnoticed, then I have to question their existence in the first place.
Stve Abram asked the really tough question: what are we conserving and preserving these materials for delivery to? Most Internet services now don't require using a browser. It's user-interaction that's being delivered. The new library users have higer academic scores, but no fact-based learning skills, but many have highly-developed learning styles.
14:40 James Hodson presented a Holistic View of Digital Preservation. The key points from his presentation focused on how the user receives the content that's being delivered. Bandwith and display technology have changed dramatically in the past five years. Monitor resolution, processor speed, RAM, and bandwith have all increased. Storage and capacity costs have dropped continually. In December 2005 56% of all computers had a resolution of 1024x768, 20% were 800x600, and 14% were 1280x1024.
I've actually had a couple of minutes today to find and say hi to a couple of people I know from other conferences. I've even had a chance to talk to some new people about what we're doing and gotten some great perspectives and thoughts. It's been great!
10:00 This morning's keynote was by Megan Fox, Planning for a Handheld Mobile Future. She discussed several devices that are capable of receiving digital content. Microsoft is developing a new font to replace Times New Roman that will be more readable on multiple devices. New apps are being created to produce native mobile content. A study to deliver student's schedules to their mobile devices raised the question, "If you can upload their schedule to their phone, why can't you turn the ringer off?" Another product described was a mobile digital search. Use your camera phone to take a picture of an object, then receive information about it. One example is to take a picture of a movie poster and get back reviews and theaters and showtimes, or video stores, in your area. I'm not quite sure how we'd ever de able to deliver digital content to a patron's smart phone, but we could send them information on the FHL in a text message or voicemail.
11:20 Lorcan Dempsey spoke about Structured data in the Web 2.0. He mentioned four specific areas where the 2.0 web was developing:
- Flat applications - web services stitched into other applications delivering a seamless experience to the user.
- Rich interaction - Using tools like AJAX to deliver browser-based interactive services, and web-delivered business applications like Google's Writely.
- Data is the new functionality - Services built on top of data.
- Participation - social networking, mobilizing the web so that content is delivered to the user not connected to a PC.
12:20 The Digitization Issues and Challenges panel was interesting. There were four panelists, two representing Kirtas and ebrary, one from a STM (Sct-Tech-Med) librarian, and Steve Abram. The tag-team sales pitch wasn't too compelling from my point of veiw. That's probably because our preservation focus is on materials completely different from what they are centering on. They're doing automated filming of printed books, we're doing preservation of materials that may be destroyed as part of the preservation process. So, their business model ain't in my world.
The STM perspective is that these types of libraries are disappearing and will probably go totally unnoticed once they are gone. I'll contest that, and say the users of those libraries will certainly notice. And if they pass away unnoticed, then I have to question their existence in the first place.
Stve Abram asked the really tough question: what are we conserving and preserving these materials for delivery to? Most Internet services now don't require using a browser. It's user-interaction that's being delivered. The new library users have higer academic scores, but no fact-based learning skills, but many have highly-developed learning styles.
14:40 James Hodson presented a Holistic View of Digital Preservation. The key points from his presentation focused on how the user receives the content that's being delivered. Bandwith and display technology have changed dramatically in the past five years. Monitor resolution, processor speed, RAM, and bandwith have all increased. Storage and capacity costs have dropped continually. In December 2005 56% of all computers had a resolution of 1024x768, 20% were 800x600, and 14% were 1280x1024.
I've actually had a couple of minutes today to find and say hi to a couple of people I know from other conferences. I've even had a chance to talk to some new people about what we're doing and gotten some great perspectives and thoughts. It's been great!
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