jcdl post 2: digital curation and preservation

The first panel I went to was digital curation and preservation. my notes from these sessions are more sparse.

( how to choose a digital preservation strategy )

( factors affecting website reconstruction from the web infrastructure )

( defining what digital curators do and what they need to know, the DigCCurr project )

( generating best-effort preservation metadata for web resources at time of dissemination )

jcdl post 3: The OAI-ORE Effort: Progress, Challenges, Synergies

Just like the other times I've seen these gentlemen speak, I found this panel -- and Carl Lagoze in particular -- to be less provocative than frustrating. I never get the sense that Lagoze is listening to anyone in the room, even though he pays more lip service than any other panelist I've ever heard to saying 'talk to me, tell me what I'm doing wrong. But he takes all questions about his process as attacks and perforce responds angrily and defensively. Lynch, on the other hand, is friendly, but only wants to communicate with people he knows. It's hard for me to get past the aggressive, defensive mode of communication to see potential value in the ORE effort, but I'm trying.

( Overview of OAI-ORE )

( JISC )

( OAI-ORE in chemistry and further discussion )

Ultimately I think they're solving a real but tiny problem, and I wish the effort were being spent on solving realler, bigger problems.

jcdl4: Social Networks

Social Networks

( Can social bookmarking enhance search in the web? )

( Task-based interaction with an integrated multilingual, multimedia information system: a formative evaluation )

( modeling personal and social network context for even annotation in images )

( longitudinal study of changes in blogs )