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March 5-7, 2008
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Full Description of Project Demonstrations
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| 8:30 -
9:00 am |
Registration & Continental
Breakfast for Pre-Conference 1 |
| 9:00 -
Noon |
Organizer:
Paul Marty, Florida State University
Speakers:
Helene Blowers, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Holly Witchey, The Cleveland Museum of Art, New Media Initiatives
Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan
Robert Semper, Exploratorium
This session will provide an overview of the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts,
virtual reality and other social computing technologies in libraries, museums
and archives. Speakers will discuss the ways in which these technologies
are revolutionizing information organization and access in cultural heritage
organizations. The focus is on the implications of social computing
technologies for libraries, museums and archives nationwide, rather than
technical issues in developing web 2.0 applications. |
| Noon - 1:00
pm |
Box lunch provided for
those registered for
Pre-conference 2 |
| 12:30-
1:00 pm |
Registration for Pre-Conference
2 |
| 1:00-4:30
pm |
Organizers:
Brett Bobley,
National Endowment for the Humanities
Speakers:
The Expanded, On-Line Trans-Atlantic Slave
Trade Database
Martin Halbert, Emory University
InPhO: The Indiana Philosophy
Ontology Project
Colin Allen, Indiana University-Bloomington
Ashes2Art: Digital Reconstructions
of Ancient Monuments
Arne Flaten, Coastal Carolina University
Alyson Gill,
Arkansas State University
OpenLibrary
Linda Frueh, Internet Archive
This session, organized by the National Endowment
for the Humanities, will showcase projects and
applications that are building new communities of
scholars, students, teachers and members of the
general public around the humanities. Session presenters will explain how tools and
project designs were developed and will consider how these can be adapted
for different domains and audiences. |
| 5:00 - 7:00
pm |
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University,
1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach
Hosted by The Steven and Dorothea Green Library , Florida
International University; The Patricia and Phillip Frost
Art Museum at Florida International University; Miami
Art Museum; The Otto G. Richter Library, University
of Miami; Vizcaya Museum & Gardens; The Wolfsonian-Florida International
University
Mojitos provided by Bacardi
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University
galleries and special collections library will be open
during the event.
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| CONFERENCE
DAY ONE |
Thursday,
March 6, 2008 |
| 8:00 am - 5:00
pm |
Registration |
| 8:15 - 8:45
am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 - 9:15
am |
Cathy Leff, Director, The Wolfsonian-Florida
International University
Ronald Berkman, Provost, Florida International
University
Anne-Imelda M. Radice, Director, IMLS
Bruce Cole, Chairman, National Endowment
for the Humanities
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| 9:15 - 10:00
am |
Jonathan Fanton, President, John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation |
| 10:00 - 10:45
am |
Break
and Project Demonstrations:
* Full descriptions of
the 2008 Web Wise project demonstrations are available through the Web Wise conference online
agenda.
Speakers:
Omeka:Exhibit Collections Online in the Age of
the Web 2.0 Sharon Leon, George Mason
University Center for History and New Media
Web-Based Environmental Risk Analysis for Museums
and Libraries (WEBERA)
James Reilly, Rochester Institute of Technology
Image Permanence Institute
Point, Click, LIsten: Sound Model Demo
Leigh Grinstead, University of Denver/Collaborative
Digitization Program (CDP), now merged with the
Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR)
DAITSS Preservation Repository
Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for
Library Automation
Build A City
Louis Gerteis, University of Missouri-St.
Louis
Developing Customized Browser Plugins with
the LIbX Edition Builder
Annette Bailey and Godmar Back, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University,
University Libraries
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| 10:45 - 12:15
am |
Moderator:
Paul Marty, Florida State University
Speakers:
Zotero and the Next Generation of Digital Research
Dan
Cohen,
George Mason University Center for History and New Media
Listening to Our Visitors: Steve Museum and the Impact
of Social Tagging for Access to Online Collections
Rob Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Art
PlantCollections- A Community Solution
Boyce Tankersley, Chicago Botanic Garden |
| 12:15 - 1:15
pm |
Lunch and Lunch Tables
with Discussion Leaders |
| 1:15 - 1:45
pm |
Jose'-Marie Griffiths,Dean, School of Information and
Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill |
| 1:45 - 3:15
pm |
Moderator:
Priscilla
Caplan, Assistant Director for Digital Library Services, Florida Center
for Library Automation
Speakers:
Librarians in Virtual Worlds:Why Get a Second Life?
Ilene Frank, University of South Florida
Multimedia for Peanuts: The Pachyderm Project
Turns Five!
Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium
American History and Civic Participants: Creating
a Virtual Republic
Bill White, Colonial Williamsburg
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| 3:15 - 4:00
pm |
Break
and Project Demonstrations:
The Truth North Project: Mapping Minnesota's History
with Online GIS
Robert
Horton,
Minnesota Historical Society
From Signs to Satellites: A High Tech Interpretation
System for Botanic Gardens
John E. Dawson, Red Butte Gardens and Arboretum
TIDES(Teaching, Images and Digital Experiences)
Rachel Galan, Stephen F. Austin State University
Bringing Live to Light: Biography in Context: Browsing
and Searching Biographical Information and Events with
a Metadata Infrastructure
Ray Larson, University of California, Berkeley
School of Information
T-RACES: Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California's
Exclusionary Spaces
Richard Marciano, University of California,
Irvine Humanities Research Institute
ArtsConnectEd 2: A Process for Partnership
Susan Rotilie, Walker Art Center |
| 4:00 - 5:30
pm |
Moderator:
Marsha Semmel, IMLS
Speakers:
Privacy, Trust and a Billion Patrons
Cathy De Rosa, OCLC, Inc.
Keeping it Free from Code to Content in Contributor-Run
Archives and Libraries
Paul Jones, iBiblio
Turning Over the Keys: Building a Contemporary Science
Community with Science Buzz
Bryan Kennedy, Science Museum of Minnesota |
| 5:30 pm |
Adjourn for the day |
| 5:30pm-7:30pm |
Wine and Cheese Cocktail Reception
2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach (walking distance)
T 305.673.7530 x 1013
Hosted by the Friends of the Bass Museum
Wine and cheese cocktail party
Curator led tours of NEH-sponsored exhibit,
Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami
at 6:00 pm and 6: 45 pm |
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| CONFERENCE
DAY TWO |
Friday,
March 7 |
| 8:00 - 9:00
am |
Registration and Continental
Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 9:45
am |
Jeffrey Schnapp, Founding Director, Stanford
Humanities Lab
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| 9:45 - 10:15
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Break |
| 10:15 - 11:45
am |
Moderator:
Bernard
Reilly, President,
Center for Research Libraries
Speakers:
Capturing Connoisseurship: Wiki for Expertise in
the Evaluation of Photographs
Roger Bruce, George Eastman House
From Digital Repositories to Information Habitats: The
Quilt Index, H-Net, and MATRIX
Mark Kornbluh, Michigan State University
The Encyclopedia of Life, Biodiversity Heritage Library,
Biodiversity Informatics and Beyond Web 2.0
Cathy Norton, The Encyclopedia of Life |
| 11:45 - 12:15
pm |
Robert Semper, Executive Associate Director,
Exploratorium
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| 12:15 pm |
Adjourn |
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