Presentations

Upcoming

• Building a digital collections infrastructure with Drupal (April 2010) -CNI Spring Membership Meeting

  This session will cover the proof of concept to production of the digital collections infrastructure that was created with Drupal by the digital initiatives team at McMaster University Library. In addition, the session will cover the current initiatives that are under way with the project, such as linked data support (RDF), KML support and time permitting, a demonstration of the backend of the site and front end of the site.

• Digital Collections Redux (with Amanda Etches-Johnson) - Access 2010

  McMaster University's Digital Collections (http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca) site went from proof of concept to production very quickly. Usability testing was never done and the content of the site was crammed into an out-of-date standard university template. In an attempt to write the wrongs of the initial implementation, we undertook a project to redesign the entire site from the ground up using good user experience design principles, redesigned interactions, and usability testing at multiple stages during the process. This session will outline the project and lessons we learned throughout the process.

• Local clouds in the sky with diamonds? (with John Fink) - OLA SuperConference

  This session will cover cloud services for libraries. It will cover 4 main points; a) what is a cloud, b) why you might not want to use external cloud services, c) different local cloud setups (kvm/xen/ubuntu eucalyptus, d) what you do with your cloud once you have it.

Past

• Drupal: Content Management and Community for Your Library (with Ilana Kingsley, Harish Nayak, Dave Mitchell, and Debra Riley-Huff), Access (2008)[audio]
• Digital Commons Institutional Repository (with Barbara McDonald), LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE (2008)
• Life in the Digital Trenches (with Carl Spadoni) OLA SuperConference 2009
• Drupal4Lib - BOAF - Drupal & Digital Collections w/Karen Coombs
• Digital Odyssey 2009 - OMG! You Don't Need CONTENTdm!

• OLA SuperConference 2010 - Using Open Source Software to Build Digital Collections (February 2010)

  Description: This will be a 40-45 minute talk on the benefits of using open source technology in building digital collections with 15-20 minute demonstration. The rest of the time will be left for questions & discussion.

  Benefits: 1) Explain the benefits of Open Source technology over proprietary software. 2) Show the collaborative benefits of using Open Source software with digital collections.

• Canadian ETD and Open Repositories Workshop - McMaster University Library & Digital Commons (May 2010)

  The presentation will briefly cover the Digital Commons product by Berkeley Electronic Press as used by McMaster University Libraries. Moreover, the presentation will cover the theses and dissertation submission and review process, the journal creation & publishing process, department/faculty taxonomy structure for the IR, and the relationship between Bepress and McMaster University Libraries.