2009 OLITA Digital Odyssey

I must say that the Digital Odyssey was the best one day event I have been to. Just a fantastic day with fantastic people talking about awesome projects. It cheered me up and gave me hope in these crap times. Best part of the day had to be Mike Ridley’s keynote speech - The Age of Information is over. It is time for the Age of Imagination. It will be the library’s job to nurture and foster creativity.

Workshops attended:

Walter Lewis - The Perfectibility of Data. I must say that Walter may be a bigger metadata fascist that I am. He showed some cool stuff that I didn’t know about - media rss feeds! Then using Cooliris to visualize said feed. Also, finally realized how simple it is to provide proper data to interact with google earth & google maps. Just latitude and longitude coordinates!!!

Loren Fantin - Planning and Managing a Digitization Project. Lots of great stuff in Loren’s talk. Don’t see a blog entry on the Digital Odyssey site yet, so no link. Biggest lessons learned - scope creep!!! & digitization should be apart of collection management.

Art Rhyno - OCR Options for Scanned Content. Great session on the basics & overview of OCR, and OCR software options. Provided many examples from a variety of OCR software packages. Mostly ABBYY & Ocropus.


The text to my presentation, pdf of slides, keynote file, and powerpoint file.

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