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JASIG 2010

Robert H. McDonald — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:52:25 +0000

So this week I am with @winkler4 at the 10th anniversary edition of the JASIG conference. We are here promoting Kuali OLE but are interested in talking to others in this very unique collaborative software community. So far sessions have been great and run the gamut between OpenCast Matterhorn, Agile Development, and Web Services. Met some really cool people and ran into old friends @declan, @danwho, @pemuls, @bmljenny, and @cab105 as well as new friends Barry and Jennifer, sorry that @iandolphin24 is stuck in New Zealand.

Code4Lib 2011 @IU

Robert H. McDonald — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:21:19 +0000

So the digital library team and the iu libraries put in a proposal to host Code4lib in Bloomington next year. I hope we get enough votes from the community - https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/display/EVENTS/Code4Lib+2011+Proposal

VIVO, VIVO and More VIVO

Robert H. McDonald — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:48:01 +0000

This week in a lot of VIVO related meetings for planning and growing our network and software tools. Also will be participating in Katy Borner's cool NSF Sympoisum on Science Mapping.

Snowing in Bloomington

Robert H. McDonald — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:31:29 +0000

It has been snowing overnight and while being pretty is a pain to drive through. Working on some presentations for Sun-PASIG Midwest and for some Datanet partner components. Also working on my class for SJSU.

Cold and Colder

Robert H. McDonald — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:40:42 +0000

This week I am working on some presentations for ALA (Taiga Forum 5 and LITA Digital Libraries Interest Group) as well as some work on grants (Kuali OLE and Datanet) and trying to stay warm in this crazy cold weather.

U24 Joint Meeting

Robert H. McDonald — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:56:56 +0000

This week I am in DC at the U24 Joint meeting hosted by NCRR in Rockville, MD. Really cool meeting - got to know some more people from the Harvard based eagle-i program. Looking at how VIVOWeb and eagle-i overlap with priorities.

ALA OITP Advisory Committee Fall Retreat

Robert H. McDonald — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:20:17 +0000

Today I am in the second day of the annual ALA OITP Advisory Committee Fall Retreat. We have a real treat today in Alan Davidson, Google Director of U.S. Public Policy and Government Affairs. He is talking about all the interesting fronts that google is working on in terms of the future of the Internet.

Google is very interested in how the Internet experience has changed most people will never know a desktop - will only know netbooks and ipods and ebook readers.

Sun-PASIG Fall Meeting

Robert H. McDonald — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:47:59 +0000

I am at the Sun-PASIG meeting today and learning lots - including about the new S3 storage module for iRODS and the new advanced functionality of Islandora (use as an almost cyberenvironment - kind of like hubzero).

Sony LifeStyle PC

Robert H. McDonald — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:57:34 +0000

So I just ordered a new Sony P Series 688 lifestyle pc. Want to get it and see how Win7 works on it. Hoping it will cut down the weight in my briefcase.

IU StateWide IT Conference

Robert H. McDonald — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:55:09 +0000

The IU StateWide IT Conference kicked off today with the Local Service Provider Day. I am excited about tomorrow's session as Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics and Growing Up Digital, will be the keynote speaker.