This afternoon the SPARC Digital Repositories conference featured a happy hour dressed up as an "Innovation Fair." Guests received two free drink tickets, enjoyed some hors d'oeuvres , and listened to very brief (2 minutes, strictly enforced) presentations from people who have worked on a variety of interesting projects. I commenced to scribble notes furiously as presenters were speaking rapidly.
Here are three projects that especially caught my eye:
- Citeline, an MIT effort to make it easier for faculty to publish their bibliographies interactively on the Web. Effective use of citation management tools such as Zotero, RefWorks, and EndNote are critical to making this project work.
- Keyword in Context (KWIC) Pics: A soon to be released feature of the California Digital Library's eScholarship Repository, which will allow much more intelligent and targeted searching of PDFs within the repository.
- Electronic Theses and Disserations in Institutional Repositories: Many people are working on this problem. But the good people at George Mason University have developed a workflow that uses metadata to populate the catalog record and pulls the thesis or dissertation out of the institutional repository so people can read it. This seemed like a very balanced and comprehensive approach.
That's all for now. All in all it was an interesting and worthwhile first day.
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