The University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science held its 3rd annual Summer Institute on Data Curation. This year's focus was on earth and environmental sciences data. more »
Category: Conference Notes
Martin R. Kalfatovic, Assistant Director, Digital Services Divsion, was invited by the recently formed Medical Heritage Library (MHL) to share some some thoughts about the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). The more »
Alvin Hutchinson and I attended the annual meeting of BioOne on April 23, 2010 here in Washington, DC. BioOne is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and more »
Many of us are not fully aware of the enormous quantity of text, images, audio and video that are being produced today in digital format. But we can begin to more »
I attended, along with Marcia Adams, the spring meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) in Baltimore. Also attending were staff from the Smithsonian’s Office of the Chief Information more »
No kidding, on April 1, I attended the meeting, "A National Conversation on the Economic Sustainability of Digital Information" here in Washington. The meeting was hosted by the Blue Ribbon more »
Leonardo da Vinci diagrammed one of the first parachutes designed in the late 15th century. Since Leonardo da Vinci was a well-known polymath, artist, and engineer, many reference questions about him have come to more »