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#access2009pei – thunder talks
2 Oct 09
Natalie Collins, CISTI Lab
– came out of a hackfest-like “innovation challenge”
– invited everyone across the organization to create something innovative
– proposal day, teams of up to 4 pitching their ideas
– 15 proposals, 8 accepted to go forward
– gave a week’s worth of free time, ended with a final presentation
– winner looked at the impact of news reporting of research on searching
Ali Sadaqain, York U
– web redesign in VuFind
– facets on left sidebar, call number issues, language tweaks
– multiple formats showing up
– wanted some “2.0″ stuff, so added an “add to favorites” [sic] option; not shared
– also included click-throughs to journal articles, although I don’t see explicit SFX enabling
(sorry, missed presenter’s name) Jamaican libraries
– looking at revamping Jamaican libraries in Drupal
– most have single page websites
– most use UNISYS(?) from UNESCO
– few resources for most up-to-date software, and for digitization
– internet penetration is about 20%; 80% of businesses have access
– mobile phone use us very high
Anne Barrett, Dalhousie
– one month live with WorldCat Local as primary search interface
– adds relevance ranking, FRBR features, SFX integration, ILL support
– more modern presentation of information
– older search engine to Novanet still available
– 17,000+ searches in Sept, apparent calm is hopefully good news
– still some outstanding issues: large number of records with no OCLC match
– significant impact on cataloguing
– smaller issues, RefWorks isn’t integrating well off campus
– can FRBR algorithm be adapted to favour more academic institutions
– impact on doc delivery, because of links to items held world wide
Craig Deplace, Jamie O’Toole, School District 16 in NB
– teachers
– used Drupal to develop repository for student and staff generated video
– were publishing on Youtube, less than perfect for kids
– decided to create own Youtube, extended it to allow teachers to upload wide variety of resources: District 16 Media Centre
– close to 3000 pieces of content
– recognized potential to use Drupal elsewhere
– distance delivered media course wanted a way to publish content, originally a PDF newsletter
– The District 16 Report
– students log in, act as creator/editor for news content, can also maintain a personal blog
– there is a moderation queue
– brings together students from 5 sites
– in the process of moving the schools’ websites into Drupal
– much simpler than training teachers to use Dreamweaver
– spreads content maintenance across many teachers, Drupal makes it easy and changes what and how we publish
– one school (Gretna Green?) streams their announcements in video and then uploads to their website
Bess Sadler, U Virginia
– Scholars’ Lab – merger of geospatial/stat data centre with text centre
– had lots of GIS data with very little metadata
– generally had to talk to the “GIS guy”
– received a grant to buy ESRI(?) online mapping system, spent 6 weeks trying to install
– somebody said, why not try OS?
– OpenLayers on top of PostGIS
– simple search utility
– visualizations as well
– planning to load data sets into main catalogue
Jennifer Richard, Acadia
– digitized herbarium
– started with manageable collections, starting with rare/endangered species, then invasive
– applied CFI project for Canadensys, now up to 50K specimens
– improved quality control, search capabilities
– considering replacing proprietary image management with dJatoka
– also includes smaller collection from Cape Breton U, plans to work with St FX, UNB, UPEI
Cameron Metcalf, U of Ottawa
– have 250K air photos
– hoping to bring online, at least the indexes
– photos described by roll number and photo sequence
– very manual, somewhat tedious methods to find photo numbers
– starting to use MarkerClusterer to allow drilling down via web map index
Karen Hunt, U Manitoba
– chat reference
– have been using PHP live
– solution to bridge gap between culture of students and of librarians
– no real IM culture in library, much less text messaging
– now advertising a text messaging number that connects via Google Android phone to librarian interface
Posted by pzed on October 2, 2009 at 9.33am
Categories: access 2009, conferences, libraries, twitter
