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Spring 2008 DLC Materials Now Available
I wanted to write about this a few days ago, but have only found the time to do so now. The Government Printing Office (GPO) started releasing materials from the Spring 2008 Depository Library Conference even before the DLC meeting closed on April 2, 2008. You can find their materials at http://www.fdlp.gov/repository/dlc/spring08/index.html GPO deserves credit for being prompt for the initial release of DLC materials. It is a refreshing change from a few years ago when people who couldn't make meetings had to wait many weeks for materials to be made available. So thanks GPO! I hope to go through most of this material in the near future in more detail, but here are some items that seem like they are of special interest:
- Improved Access to EPA Information:Before and After with Web 2.0 by Brand Niemann (in 3 parts)
- Web 2.0 Power Point Presentation by Cindy Etkin of the U.S. Government Printing Office
- Back to the drawing board in Virtual and Real Worlds
- Web Harvesting Update for the Depository Library Council
- Web Scraping Government Information
Spring 2008 DLC Conference March 31 – April 2 Resources Page
Official materials including handouts and some prepared speeches can be found at http://www.fdlp.gov/repository/dlc/spring08/index.html. Please feel free to send us your notes or recordings of conference sessions. Continue reading
2007 Fall FDLP/DLC proceedings, audio recordings, and unedited transcripts available!
The GPO has posted a recap of the 2007 Fall Federal Depository Library Conference and Fall Depository Library Council Meeting that includes audio files, photos, and unedited transcripts. Of particular note:Ric Davis, who has been serving as Interim Superintendent of Documents has accepted the job of Interim Superintendent of Documents; the FDSys has been renamed FDSys; and the Depository Library Council is now directly asking "What does FDSys mean for libraries?" Also of note: there were excellent discussions of official and authentic online legal materials and shared models for regional FDLP libraries.
Continue reading2005 Free Culture & the Digital Library: “Govt Information in the Digital Era: Free Culture or Controlled Substance?”
Free Culture and the Digital Library These are the notes I used for the presentation I gave at the Free Culture and the Digital Library conference and are based on the paper, Government Information in the Digital Era: Free Culture or Controlled Substance? by Karrie Peterson (NCSU Libraries, North Carolina State University) and James A. Jacobs (Data Services, University of California San Diego). Continue reading
Lunchtime listen: Crisis of the Commons
Last week, Shinjoung and I were invited to participate at the Crisis of the California Commons Conference. Our panel discussion was with Megan Shaw Prelinger, Annalee Newitz and Bodo Balazs entitled, "Information Commons: Rebirth or Siren Song?" I think there was a lot of discussion about different commmons (environmental, cultural, information etc) that resonate for librarians in general and documents librarians (keepers of the public domain!). You can access the audio here. One of the best talks (well besides ours!) was Rick Prelinger's plenary on the cultural commons was especially interesting (at 44:20 of the audio file with Jeff Lustig, Jonathan Rowe, Ruth Rosen, and Iain Boal). Rick talked eloquently about interoperability, sampling, and openness, issues near and dear to our collective heart. Enjoy!
Commons requires interoperability so it can be open to all; you don't need a special key to enter the commons... Here's some examples of openness taken from the cultural domain: Openness means not just seeing the image of a bookpage but seeing the text too and being able to grab it, mix it, manipulate it. It means not just watching a movie but being able to download the shots and the edit list and make your own cut. It means not just the music but the MIDI. It means not just the freedom to read, listen, watch, feel, smell, taste, but the freedom to remix in all of these sensory domains. So in the world that we're entering, the digital world, it means that we have to be able to touch the digital object itself and touch the code that makes it play, display, or manifest itself. In other words, not just see things but be able to transform them.Continue reading
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